1	What is Mythology? Emergence, Meaning and Effects of Mythology The concept of mythology: Mythos, Logos and Ethos; Functions of mythology, effects of mythology on the history of civilization.
2	What is Myth? Types of Myth Myth, Ritual, Myth, Epic, Folk story, Fairy tale, Fable; Types of myths: Ritual myths, Origin myths, Cult myths, Prestige myths, Myths of Eskatalogia.
3	Mesopotamian and Egyptian Mythologies Mesopotamian civilizations and culture; Sumerian civilization, culture and mythology; Babylonian civilization, culture and mythology; Epic of Gilgamesh; Egyptian civilization, culture and mythology.
4	Introduction to Classical Mythology Antiquity, Hellenism, Greek civilization and culture, Roman civilization and culture, Greek and Roman mythologies.
5	Classical Mythology: Greek and Roman Mythologies Greek mythology, Homer and Homer Epics, Heseidos; Roman mythology, Vergilius, Ovidius.
6	Middle Eastern mythologies Middle Eastern civilizations and culture; Jewish mythology and the Torah; Christian myths and the Bible; Armenian mythology; Iranian mythology.
7	Anatolian mythology Anatolian civilization and culture; Hittite civilization, culture and mythology; The cult of the mother goddess; Anatolian legends.
8	Midterm Exam
9	East Asian and Turkish mythologies East Asian civilization and culture: Chinese civilization, culture and mythology; Japanese civilization, culture and mythology; Turkish civilization, culture and mythology, Dede Korkut Stories.
10	Mythology and its Reflections on the Contemporary World Moles and ‘Dynamic myth’ concept, Jung and ‘Archetype’ concept, Symbolism, Modern myths. Lecture and Case Studies.
11	Mythology and Art Art, Icon, Iconography, Effects of mythology on Western art and analysis of art works ... Lecture and Case Studies.
12	What is culture? The concept of culture, culture-life relationship, culture analysis and sociology, oral and written culture.
13	Culture-Ideology Relationship Cultural theory, Ideology, Culture-ideology relationship ...
14	Cinema, Mythology and Culture The concept of cinema, the relationship between cinema and mythology as a cultural indicator, the analysis of the use of mythology in cinema, mythological heroes in cinema, references to mythological events, and references to mythological symbols. Lecture and Case Studies.

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