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. |