Elizabeth Vandiver
Author of Classical Mythology
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Works by Elizabeth Vandiver
Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War (Classical Presences) (2010) 17 copies
Greek Tragedy: Part 2 6 copies
Greek Tragedy: Part 1 5 copies
Herodotus: the father of history : Part 2 (The Great Courses) (2 discs) -- DVD #GC131 (no captions) 2 copies
Plato 1 copy
Catullus and Horace 1 copy
Virgil 1 copy
Ovid 1 copy
Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch 1 copy
Petronius and Apuleius 1 copy
The Gospels 1 copy
Augustine 1 copy
“Gods are Useful” 1 copy
Thucydides 1 copy
Aristophanes 1 copy
Isaiah 1 copy
Herodotus 1 copy
Euripides 1 copy
Sophocles 1 copy
Aeschylus 1 copy
Sappho and Pindar 1 copy
Homer - The Odyssey 1 copy
Homer - The Iliad 1 copy
Job 1 copy
The Epic of Gilgamesh 1 copy
Herodotus's Account of Egypt 1 copy
The Deuteronomistic History 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1956
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
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- Elizabeth Vandiver (b. 1956) is a noted professor of classics at Whitman College in Washington. Her works include Heroes in Herodotus, and she has recorded numerous lectures on the classics for The Teaching Company. Vandiver received her undergraduate education from Shimer College, a Great Books school where she enrolled at age 16 through the early entrance program, and her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. (from Shimer College Wiki) (from Shimer College Wiki)
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So much information is to be found in this course! It covers Classical Mythology in both its Greek and Roman forms and gives us an overview and introduction to some of the main gods and heroes, along with a timeframe and ending with a summary of how classical mythology is present in many modern day books, films, etc.
Learning the actual story of these gods from mythology and some of their interactions was so interesting and, I realized, something I should have done many years ago. I have always enjoyed the watered down books of mythology, or the children's versions, and the movies that have appeared from time to time. And though I thought I had a very basic understanding of some of the main classical mythology stories, I did not. The factual historical tales are not for the faint of heart. They are filled with violence of every kind, sexual perversion and deviance galore, incest, cannibalism and you name it. And the descriptions get very graphic and unimaginably horrific and gross. Modern horror movies and serial killers have nothing on gods and heroes from classical mythology. I was shocked to find out that I had gone all these years without being aware of that. Or definitely the extent of that. And, by the way, "hero" does not always refer to a great personage of good intention. Great personage and amazing deeds perhaps, but they can be a bad person or bad deeds. All-in-all, I highly recommend Great Courses Classical Mythology. It is very educational and gives us so many facts about something that we should all be familiar with.… (more)