COURSE HANDOUTS AND STUDY GUIDES CLAS230 Classical Mythology
Department of Classics
Monmouth College
COURSE HANDOUTS AND STUDY GUIDES
Some Useful Websites
for the study of Classical Mythology
Chronology
Map/Geography List for QUIZ / Map Website /
Pandora's Box
/ Countee
Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel"
Myth Theory: "The Web of Myth"
/ "On Myths
and Sisyphean Tasks" / Some
Definitions / Folktale Themes
Heroes: The Hero
Packet / Hero
Cycle of Marie de Medici / Biography of Marie de Medici
/ Penelope and the
Hero Pattern / The Hero Pattern applied to
Women in Myth, History and Literature / Magical
Earth Maiden Pattern / Earth Maiden
Pattern applied to Medea / Mystery
of Myths
Gods: Greek
Pantheon / The Major
Gods / Slides on
Demeter / Cybele / Catullus' "Attis"
/ / Bellini's
"Feast of the Gods / Sappho's Prayer to Aphrodite
/ Sappho
16 / Some Important
Dionysian Terms / On the
Parthenon Sculptures / Photographs
of the Elgin Marbles / Keat's
"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time" / Worshipping Athena:
Summaries
Trojan War: Summary of
Events / Chronology
/ Trial of Helen of Troy
Odyssey: Analysis
/ Characters
/ Cavafy's
"Ithaca" / Antithesis
and Framing in the Odyssey / Study
Questions / More
Study Questions / Odyssey
Chronology Quiz
Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus' Agamemnon
/ Aeschylus' Eumenides
/ Euripides' Trojan Women
/ Euripides' Medea / Euripides' Alcestis
World Myths: Egypt: Isis,
Osiris, and Horus / Venus of Willendorf
Website
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