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May 02, 2024
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LAS 473 - Myths that Shape Our Lives
Joseph Campbell, the world-renowned mythologist, said that myths are the universal dream and dream the universal myth. In its deepest sense, myth is not fantasy or something untrue, but a language of symbol and story articulating the universality of the human experience. For us to reflect on our experiences, we need to learn this mythopoetic language, to familiarize ourselves with classic myths and to examine how myth is alive and well in our daily lives. This seminar will focus on some of the most powerful figures from Greek and Roman mythology, using Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Everywoman and Gods in Everyman as principal texts. By the end of the seminar, students will write their own myths in which they examine which goddesses and gods guide their lives. (3 hours)
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