Life lessons from the great myths. Volume 1 of 3
(DVD)

Compact discs.

12 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.

Lecturer: Professor J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma.

A series of lectures delivered by Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma in which he explores the world's greatest myths. Beginning with the Trojan War and the Iliad and moving through the Bronze age in the Mediterranean with Theseus and Oedipus, Mesopotamia and Gilgamesh, the three great religions from the Middle East, the Roman Empire in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus and Augustus, Alexander the Great, the British Isles, Beowulf and King Arthur, Julius Caesar and Napoleon, ultimately crossing the Atlantic to consider the myths of America created from the oldest legends of humankind.