Lecture 1, Introductions I
G2 Class 1.1, Introductions
G2 Class 2.1, Sacred Performance Among Hunter-Gatherers
Lecture 2, Sacred Spaces, Holy Hours
G2 Class 2.2, Enuma Elish: Sacred Performance in Babylon
G2 Class 3.1, Gilgamesh: Mesopotamian Epic 1
Lecture 3, The Contrasting Art of Two Ancient Empires
G2 Class 3.2, Gilgamesh: Mesopotamian Epic 2
G2 Class 4.1, Abraham: Biblical epic 1
Lecture 4, Monotheism: evolution or revolution?
G2 Class 4.2, Moses: Biblical epic 2
G2 Class 5.1, Classical Poets on Love
Lecture 5, The Civic Function of Greek Theater | Medea part 1
G2 Class 5.2, Greek Sculpture | Medea, part 2
G2 Class 6.1, Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Rage and Redemption
Lecture 6, Socrates and Greek Philosophy
G2 Class 6.2, Socrates’ Higher Vision of Love
G2 Class 7.1, Christianity: a brief introduction
Lecture 7, Midterm Exam
G2 Class 7.2, Christian Warrior Culture
G2 Class 8.1, Medieval Christian Romance
Lecture 8, Late Medieval Love Lyric
G2 Class 8.2, The Petrarchan Craze
G2 Class 9.1, The Sociology of Court Life
Lecture 9, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
G2 Class 9.2, The Tempest and the Politics of Rebellion
G2 Class 10.1, The Tempest and the Politics of Healing
Lecture 10, The Antiquities Craze in Renaissance Italy
G2 Class 10.2, Baroque Art: Embracing Passion
G2 Class 11.1, Descartes' Cogito Ergo Sum
Lecture 11, Kant and Enlightenment Reason
G2 Class 11.2, Self-Reflection and the Orient: Montesquieu & Montagu
G2 Class 12.1, The Enlightenment: Classical Music
Lecture 12, Enlightenment Satire: Voltaire & Hogarth
G2 Class 13.1, Satire's End, and an introduction to Romanticism
G2 Class 13.2, Blake: the Dialectic of Innocence and Experience
Lecture 14, Romanticism and Revolution: Napoleon and Beethoven
G2 Class 14.1, Wordsworth, Coleridge: Finding the Self in Nature