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Loading... Life Lessons from the Great Mythsby J. Rufus Fears
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A series of lectures delivered by Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma in which he explores the world's greatest myths. Beginning with the Trojan War and the Illiad and moving through the Bronze age in the Mediterranean with Theseus and Oedipus, Mesopotamia and Gilgamesh, the three great religions from the Middle East, the Roman Empire in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus and Augustus, Alexander the Great, the British Isles, Beowulf and King Arthur, Julius Caesar and Napoleon, ultimatelycrossing the Atlantic to consider the myths of America created from the oldest legends of humankind. No library descriptions found. |
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This professor is so condescending and pompous, and the myths shared in this lecture series are all very traditional. We do seven lectures on Troy, and NOT ONE Indigenous or Native myth? No thank you. I've listened to other much more inclusive lecture series from The Great Courses on mythology.
Add to this that the author kept mis-naming the Native tribes and spent time at the end really feeding into white colonial entitlement. And that's the content. I didn't see any "life lessons" in these myths. A couple times, he referenced the way myth aligns with historical fact, but mostly, he just retold Greek myths, American folklore, and Roman and Medieval history from his perspective. There was a lecture about Gilgamesh at the beginning, but it felt very much included from a perspective of "well you can't skip Gilgamesh, it's the oldest known myth" perspective and not real interest.
So this lecture series is a hard pass from me. The concept as told in the title of the lecture series is interesting, but I despised the professor and the biased content and I don't recommend this at all. (