Elizabeth Vandiver
Forfatter af Classical Mythology
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Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War (Classical Presences) (2010) 17 eksemplarer
Greek Tragedy: Part 2 6 eksemplarer
Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition, Part I: Near Eastern and Mediterranean Foundations 5 eksemplarer
Greek Tragedy: Part 1 5 eksemplarer
Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition, Part II: Literature of the Classical World 3 eksemplarer
Herodotus: the father of history : Part 2 (The Great Courses) (2 discs) -- DVD #GC131 (no captions) 2 eksemplarer
Plato 1 eksemplar
Menander and Hellenistic Literature 1 eksemplar
Catullus and Horace 1 eksemplar
Virgil 1 eksemplar
Ovid 1 eksemplar
Herodotus: The Father of History Part I 1 eksemplar
Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch 1 eksemplar
Petronius and Apuleius 1 eksemplar
The Gospels 1 eksemplar
Augustine 1 eksemplar
“Gods are Useful” 1 eksemplar
Thucydides 1 eksemplar
Aristophanes 1 eksemplar
Isaiah 1 eksemplar
Herodotus 1 eksemplar
Euripides 1 eksemplar
Sophocles 1 eksemplar
Aeschylus 1 eksemplar
Sappho and Pindar 1 eksemplar
Homer - The Odyssey 1 eksemplar
Homer - The Iliad 1 eksemplar
Job 1 eksemplar
The Epic of Gilgamesh 1 eksemplar
Near Eastern and Mediterranean Foundations 1 eksemplar
Herodotus's Account of Egypt 1 eksemplar
The Deuteronomistic History 1 eksemplar
Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis 1 eksemplar
The Iliad od Homer - Course GUidebook 1 eksemplar
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Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition (1900) — nogle udgaver — 69 eksemplarer
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- 1956
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- female
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- USA
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- Elizabeth Vandiver (b. 1956) is a noted professor of classics at Whitman College in Washington. Her works include Heroes in Herodotus, and she has recorded numerous lectures on the classics for The Teaching Company. Vandiver received her undergraduate education from Shimer College, a Great Books school where she enrolled at age 16 through the early entrance program, and her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. (from Shimer College Wiki) (from Shimer College Wiki)
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So much information is to be found in this course! It covers Classical Mythology in both its Greek and Roman forms and gives us an overview and introduction to some of the main gods and heroes, along with a timeframe and ending with a summary of how classical mythology is present in many modern day books, films, etc.
Learning the actual story of these gods from mythology and some of their interactions was so interesting and, I realized, something I should have done many years ago. I have always enjoyed the watered down books of mythology, or the children's versions, and the movies that have appeared from time to time. And though I thought I had a very basic understanding of some of the main classical mythology stories, I did not. The factual historical tales are not for the faint of heart. They are filled with violence of every kind, sexual perversion and deviance galore, incest, cannibalism and you name it. And the descriptions get very graphic and unimaginably horrific and gross. Modern horror movies and serial killers have nothing on gods and heroes from classical mythology. I was shocked to find out that I had gone all these years without being aware of that. Or definitely the extent of that. And, by the way, "hero" does not always refer to a great personage of good intention. Great personage and amazing deeds perhaps, but they can be a bad person or bad deeds. All-in-all, I highly recommend Great Courses Classical Mythology. It is very educational and gives us so many facts about something that we should all be familiar with.… (mere)