Lecture 1, Introductions I
G3 Class 1.1, Introductions
G3 Class 2.1, Sacred Performance Among Hunter-Gatherers
Lecture 2, Sacred Spaces, Holy Hours
G3 Class 2.2, Enuma Elish: Sacred Performance in Babylon
G3 Class 3.1, Gilgamesh: Mesopotamian Epic 1
Lecture 3, The Contrasting Art of Two Ancient Empires
G3 Class 3.2, Gilgamesh: Mesopotamian Epic 2
G3 Class 4.1, Abraham: Biblical epic 1
Lecture 4, Monotheism: evolution or revolution?
G3 Class 4.2, Exodus: Biblical epic 2
G3 Class 5.1, Hesiod, Sappho, Ovid: Classical Poets on Love
Lecture 5, The Civic Function of Greek Theater | Medea part 1
G3 Class 5.2, Greek Sculpture | Medea, part 2
G3 Class 6.1, Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Rage and Redemption
Lecture 6, Socrates and Greek Philosophy
G3 Class 6.2, Socrates’ Higher Vision of Love
G3 Class 7.1, Christianity: a brief introduction
Lecture 7, Midterm Exam
G3 Class 7.2, Christian Warrior Culture
G3 Class 8.1, Medieval Christian Romance
Lecture 8, Late Medieval Love Lyric
G3 Class 8.2, The Petrarchan Craze
G3 Class 9.1, The Sociology of Court Life
Lecture 9, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
G3 Class 9.2, The Tempest and the Politics of Rebellion
G3 Class 10.1, The Tempest and the Politics of Healing
Lecture 10, The Antiquities Craze in Renaissance Italy
G3 Class 10.2, Baroque Art: Embracing Passion
G3 Class 11.1, Descartes' Cogito Ergo Sum
Lecture 11, Kant and Enlightenment Reason
G3 Class 11.2, Self-Reflection and the Orient: Montesquieu & Montagu
G3 Class 12.1, The Enlightenment: Classical Music
Lecture 12, Enlightenment Satire: Voltaire & Hogarth
G3 Class 13.1, Satire's End, and an introduction to Romanticism
G3 Class 13.2, Blake: The Dialectic of Innocence and Experience
Lecture 14, Romanticism and Revolution: Napoleon and Beethoven
G3 Class 14.1, Wordsworth, Coleridge: Finding the Self in Nature