Tuesday, Sep 21 Hell Hath No Fury Like a Man Devalued:

The Agricultural Mega-Revolution and What It Did to Male and Female Roles
Audio.

READING:

McNeill, pp. 29-41.
Click to read George Will Column on Study indicating a biological need for connection

Wednesday, Sep 22 Discussion.

READING: Reilly, 41-54 (Gilgamesh & Hammurabi).

Thursday, Sep 23 The Bronze Age in Mesopotamia

Three Mesopotamian Myths (handout).

McNeill, pp. 29-41.

Tuesday, Sep 28 Science Imitates Life: The "Conception Misconception" and Creation Stories

READING: Excerpts from the Enuma Elish, Genesis, Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Course Reader, pp. 44-71.

Audio

Wednesday, Sep 29 What Are We to Make of All This?

Students will meet with their small groups to discuss the ideas and interpretations that have arisen so far in the class and what they think of them. Each group will produce a short collaborative paper summarizing their reactions to the course so far and addressing specific questions that will be given to them by the instructors.

Thursday, Sep 30 "Tell Me All Your Thoughts on God":
The Triumph of a Male God and What It Has Meant
Audio

READING: Excerpt from Aeschylus, Eumenides, in Course

Reader, pp. 72-80.

FILM (to be shown in class):

Eumenides