Tuesday, Sep 26 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 27 Discussion.
READING: Reilly, 41-54 (Gilgamesh & Hammurabi).
Thursday, Sep 28 The Bronze Age in Mesopotamia
Three Mesopotamian Myths (handout).
McNeill, pp. 29-41.
Tuesday, Oct 3 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.
Wednesday, Oct 4 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, Oct 5 "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
FILM (to be shown in class):
Eumenides
