Additional Materials for Instructors and Students
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- The Trojan War (all parts)
- The Hero’s Journey
- Theseus and the Minotaur
- The Adventures of Hercules
- Cadmus and Europa
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Perseus and Medusa
- The Odyssey
unit 3: Adventure and the hero’s journey
the trojan war
Additional Reading Materials
- Interesting CC-BY-ND article comparing Trojan War to now
- CC-BY-ND article references Achilles’ heel
- CC-BY-ND article references “beware Greeks bearing gifts”
- CC-BY-ND article references “Trojan horse”
- Another CC-BY-ND article references “Trojan Horse”
- NYT Article about Iliad: “Anger in Troubled Times”
Additional Audio/Video Materials
Epic gaming: an extra listening for “epic”
- Audio series telling the story of the Trojan War (with transcript)
- Audio: VOA Special English explains “Apple of Discord”
- Audio: VOA Special English explains “Achilles’ Heel”
- Audio: NPR story references “Trojan Horse” (1)
- Audio: NPR story references “Trojan Horse” (2)
- Video: CNBC story references “Trojan Horse”
- Video: Trump and Trojan Horse
- Audio: NPR story references “Cassandra”
- Merriam-Webster Word of the Day audio for Cassandra
Cassandra of Climate Change
Additional Reading Materials
Additional Audio/Video Materials
The Hero’s journey
Additional Reading Materials
- A “choose-your-own adventure” PowerPoint I made about the hero’s journey! (CC-BY)
- A good resource if you want to dive deeper into the hero’s journey
Additional Audio/Video Materials
- Video: Introduction to hero’s journey
- Video: Another short intro to the hero’s journey
- Video: Much more in depth hero’s journey explanation
- Audio: NPR article about Campbell’s stages and George Lucas
- Video: Carl Jung and the collective unconscious
- audio about movies and Greek heroes
- More TED Talks of interest
Theseus
Additional Audio/Video Materials
Interesting philosophy video referencing Theseus’ ship
- Merriam-Webster Word of the Day audio for Procrustean
- Audio: A much different account of the story of Theseus from the University of Cambridge
- U of C extended version–along with the story of Icarus
Hercules
Additional Reading Materials
- Interesting CC-BY-ND article about Amazons
- Real life Amazons–actresses from the 2017 Wonder Woman movie (images)
Additional Audio/Video Materials
- Audio: NPR story references “Herculean”
- Audio: NPR story references Hydra
- VOA article references Hydra
- Audio: NPR story references Augean stables
- Podcast about Hercules (long!) (part 1)(part 2)
- Podcast about the Amazons (long!) (part 1) (part 2)
Cadmus and europa
Additional Audio/Video Materials
- Audio for the story of Cadmus by E. M. Berens (also Perseus)
jason and the argonauts
Additional Reading Materials
- What happens after Jason becomes the hero? Article: summary of Euripides’ play “Medea”
- Modern play based on Medea and summary of the play (CC-BY)
- Or…read the whole play here!
- CC-BY-ND article about Medea play and maternal infanticide
- Interesting Wiki about “medea”: Maternal effect dominant embryonic arrest
- Article about ancient Greek robots, referencing Talos: Another interesting article about the book “Gods and Robots”
- “Guide to the classics: Euripides’ Medea and her terrible revenge against the patriarchy” (CC-BY-ND)
- A little random: How Gossip was a powerful tool in ancient Greece
Additional Audio/Video Materials
- Pirates of the Carribean siren scene
- NPR audio refers to Scylla and Charybdis
- Interesting NPR audio about modern Medea
- Podcast about Jason and the Argonauts (long!): (part 1)(part 2)
Video focused on Talos:
perseus and medusa
Additional Reading Materials
- An interesting (but trigger warning-ish) article about Medusa’s origins and culture
- An interesting gallery of paintings based on the story of Perseus (article) (images only)
- Author’s analysis of Medusa’s origin and fate
Additional Audio / Video Materials
- Podcast about how Medusa became to be
- CW: rape–Medusa mentioned starting at about 24 mins in
- Audio for the story of Perseus by E.M. Berens (at 5:38)
- Podcast about Perseus
- Podcast about Medusa
the odyssey
Additional Reading Materials
- NPR audio references Odysseus; article references Penelope
- Interesting CC-BY-ND article analyzing the Odyssey
- Another CC-BY-ND article referencing the Odyssey
- Long comics for The Odyssey and The Iliad
Additional Audio / Video Materials
- NPR audio references “medical odysseys”
- Merriam-Webster Word of the Day audio of mentor
- An interesting TED Talk referencing mentor
- Interesting podcast focusing on Penelope
- TED Talk references Odysseus and Penelope
- NPR audio references Odysseus; article references Penelope
- Odyssey podcast series! You got 3 hours? (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)
