COURSE HANDOUTS AND STUDY GUIDES
ISSI402 Classical Mythology and Religion
Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois
Instructor: Thomas J. Sienkewicz (toms@monm.edu)
Any student taking a Classics course should be familiar with the Perseus website. The links for CLAS230 Classical Mythology may also be useful.
Current ISSI402 Syllabus / Timeline of Greek History and Literature / Greek Chronology / Some Definitions of Terms / Some Issues and Ideas Raised in ISSI402
Sample Student Websites
/ Website Template /
The Monmouth College Curriculum / New
MC Curriculum / Study
questions on ISSI, Myth and Religion / Myth
and Religion: Some Definitions / The
Web of Myth Theory
Genealogy of the Gods
Some Images of the
Christian God
Polytheism. / Islam and Polytheism / A Brief Survey of Christian Polytheism / The Pantheon / Greek Pantheon / Classical Myths: The Ancient Sources /
Prometheus / Prometheus Bound. / Hesiod's Theogony, 508-544 and 545-565) / Catalogue of Greek Animal Sacrifice and Summary / Augustan Altar of Peace / Altar of Peace / Animal Sacrifice / Santeria and Animal Sacrifice / The Latter Day Saints and Animal Sacrifice
Electronic Bible / Lord Ganesh / Ganesh
Classical
Myths: The Ancient Sources / Carlos
Paranda's Catalogue of Images /
Cleanthes'
"Hymn to Zeus" / The
Bible Browser / Prayer
/ Chronology
/ Greek
Pantheon / The
Major Gods /
Sacrifice of Iphigenia / Sacrifice of Iphigenia in Art / Review of Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece / Minoan Religion (focus on Anemospilia) / Anemospilia / Minoan Snake Goddess.
Some Definitions / Beginnings of Religion / Roman Divinities in Archaic Period / Sources for Roman Religion / Some Theories on the Origin of Religion / Definitions of Religion / Some Notes on Roman Religion / Brief History of Greco-Roman Religion / Religio Romana
Sacred Places: Delphi / Delos / Eleusis /
Juno Sospita: Coin
/ Church of San Nicola in Carcere in Rome: 1
/ 2/
3
Babri
Mosque / Babri
Masjid (mosque) at Ayodhya / The
Ayodhya Dispute /
Babri History /
Babri Mosque
Apotheosis: Temple of Antoninus and Faustina / On the temple / Apotheosis of an Emperor / On the Column base of the emperor Antoninus Pius / The Lincoln Memorial / The Apotheosis of George Washington / More on the Fresco
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Ovid's Fasti:
Ovid's Fasti Overview / Fasti
Outline / Some
Characteristics of the Fasti / Fasti
I:
January / Fasti
II: February / Lupercalia
/
Fasti
III: March / Fasti III: Study Questions
/ Study Questions for IV
/ Fasti
IV: April / Fasti
V: May /
Fasti
VI: June / The
Roman Calendar / Ovid
in Art / Christian
Liturgical Calendar
Homeric
Hymns /
Outline of Homeric Hymn to
Apollo / Homeric
Hymn to Apollo / Study
and Discussion Questions /
Outline of Homeric Hymn to
Aphrodite /
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
Study Questions /
Outline of Homeric Hymn to Hermes
/ Study
Questions /
More
Study Questions/ Hermes Images
/ Hermes
Outline of Homeric Hymn to Dionysus / Villa of the Mysteries / Villa of Mysteries 2 / Dionysian Mysteries: Some Documents / Some Dionysian Terms
Take a
Virtual Tour of the Villa /
Homeric Hymn to
Demeter /
Outline
of Homeric Hymn to Demeter / Demeter
Slides / Eleusinian
Mysteries / Eleusinian
Mysteries: Some Documents / Demeter
Laughed
Bellini's
"Feast of the Gods /
Sappho's
Prayer to Aphrodite (Other
Translations)
/ Greek
Family: Religious Duties and Cults
Study
Questions for Introduction to Burkert's Ancient Mystery Cults /
Study
Questions for Introduction to Meyer's The Ancient Mysteries
/ Study
Questions on Burkert 1-3 / Study
Questions on Chapter 4 /
Some Notes on
Mysteria /
Venus of Willendorf Website
/ Dove"s
"Venus of Willendorf"
/
False Goddess (A review of
The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a
Future
By Cynthia Eller)
Cybele
/ Catullus'
"Attis" / Study
Questions about Cybele / Mithras
in Roman Britain
For "Recovering the Passion of Early Christianity" by Jeff Sharlett, see Monmouth College Public Documents.
Prospectus for Individualized Project / Evaluation Form for Individualized Porejct / Webpage Design / Introduction to FrontPage (pdf file) / Some Tips on Web Design
Other Classics websites you may find useful
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