Ideas and Travelling

One more time about the course of Mythology J Among reading tasks and watching special videos, the participants of the course were to fulfill writing assignments. My peer evaluator shared his/her view upon my work in the following way: “The essay answers question 4 by giving both a general reasoning supplemented with specific examples. I also found the way the student weaves in structuralist and functionalist arguments very well thought out. Although answering such a broad question as this would seem to pose a great difficulty, the student manages to be succinct in a very coherent and easy to understand way. Strong writing style, no grammatical or spelling mistakes. The student chooses very interesting and relevant points, both from the reading and from her/his understanding to make the point. The lines from the Bacchae chosen to supplement the argument are interesting and on-point. Again, wonderful use of tools from the mythological tool-box: gave both a structuralis...

This article may be considered as a continuation of the previous one. As I want to share some thoughts about such a notion as Time in the Odyssey, a perfect epic which depicts a long full of adventures returning home. It is common knowledge, the Odyssey is written by Homer, an outstanding Ancient Greek poet. We can see an imaginable marble portrait busts of Homer in such famous places as the British Museum or the Louvre Museum.  Homer, the Louvre Museum The Odyssey is an epic, a long narrative poem, the events of which take 40 days. The wanderings of the main character, a Greek king of Ithaca, named Odysseus, lead the poem along a route where divine inspiration is woven into the human fabric and experience of the poem. Such a literary technique as a frame story is obviously used in the Odyssey. The frame begins with an invocation to the Muse by a poet, who claims he saw nothing, though he simultaneously summons inspiration from Zeus’s daughter who saw everything ...

Approximately 11 weeks ago I signed up for a 10-Week-Course of “Greek and Roman Mythology”. Over this amazing online course, the participants were examining the fascinating myths of the Ancient Greeks and Romans through close reading of primary texts (Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Vergil and Ovid). Thanks to Dr. Peter Struck and his colleagues I was able to reconsider my views upon mythos using various theoretical approaches as tools for a better understanding how myth operated. Studying, as well as travelling, always proves on a good saying “Live and learn!” And in this case, we dealt with a journey through time and space.  If you are interested in discovering the world and various cultures, no matter how old they are, this course will be a brilliant opportunity to study or to reveal mythos. https://class.coursera.org/mythology-003/wiki/Class_Schedule_a