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From Myth To MindHumanities / Upper Division
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Dreamtime and the Goddess of All Things: From Walter Benjamin to the Venus of Willendorf |
Monday 9/7 Labor Day No Class
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The Paleolithic Mind & The Neolithic Goddess
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Caste, Contemplation & Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia
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The Minoan Goddess & Her Year God: Dionysos in Crete |
The Mycenaeans & The Greek Dark Ages |
Dionysos in Greece/ Greek Tragedy & Satyr Plays |
Bakchic and Orphic Mysteries & Greek Shamanism |
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Between Myth & Philosophy/ Pherecydes & the Seven Sages |
Science vs. Mysticism: Ionian Physics & Pythagoras |
Being and Becoming: Parmenides & Heraclitus |
From Pluralism to Atomism: Empedocles & Democritus |
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Socrates & Other Sophists
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The Pythagorean Plato & the Platonic Academy |
Plato&Aristotle/ Aristotle & the Middle Ages
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Greek Philosophy after Aristotle & the Survival of Myth |