Life lessons from the great myths
(DVD)
Contributors
Published
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2011.
Format
DVD
Status
Port Angeles - Digital Video Disc
DVD 201.3 LIFE_LE
1 available
DVD 201.3 LIFE_LE
1 available
Copies
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Port Angeles - Digital Video Disc | DVD 201.3 LIFE_LE | Available |
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Published
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2011.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Compact discs.
Bibliography
Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-196.).
Participants/Performers
J. Rufus Fears, lecturer.
Description
A series of lectures delivered by Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma in which he explores the world's greatest myths. Beginning with the Trojan War and the Illiad and moving through the Bronze age in the Mediterranean with Theseus and Oedipus, Mesopotamia and Gilgamesh, the three great religions from the Middle East, the Roman Empire in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus and Augustus, Alexander the Great, the British Isles, Beowulf and King Arthur, Julius Caesar and Napoleon, ultimatelycrossing the Atlantic to consider the myths of America created from the oldest legends of humankind.