A 6-week course on epics from around the world.
Conducted by The Mythology Project
Duration: Starts: Ends: (1-1/2 hours every Saturday)
Venue: online
About the course: The course will explore and study six great epics that are representative of different cultures, ideas, and narrative styles and have played a significant role in the development of identity and ideology in the contemporary world. Participants will get to know the main myths, legends, beliefs, and practices contained in the epics and see how the different epics compare with each other on some of the big ideas around heroism, leadership, love, enmity, and such others
The objectives of this course are:
· Know the outline of six great epics
· Get a close reading of key aspects of the epics
· Understand epic as a genre and narrative form
· Explore epic as a living tradition that influences life, language, and ideas even today
· Compare and draw parallels between these epics about the big ideas explored in the text
Course Outcomes:
This course is aimed at all those who are interested in world cultures, mythology, folk tales and legends and the ideas that have helped shape the global historical attitudes and the outlook on social mores.
Participants will be initiated into a close reading of the epics and introduced to the many perspectives that are presented within the narratives and get to know about and understand the myths, legends and folktales that are found in the epic tales. They will know the different ways different cultures considered heroism, valour, tragedy, crisis and explored other ideas around family, kinship and faith that shaped their social order. Through the epics, participants will learn to trace many modern-day attitudes towards leadership, trust, gender, arrogance, and other such issues that impact daily life.
They will understand the debates surrounding oral versus written traditions as well as the nuanced reading of global history that the epics offer.
They will also be encouraged to investigate the processes through which epics get adapted by newer media and genre.
Thus, they will find themselves fully familiarised with a set of epics that are considered to be classics of the ancient world and be ready to pursue further readings and studies on epics
A 6-week course on epics from around the world.
Conducted by The Mythology Project
Duration: Starts: Ends: (1-1/2 hours every Saturday)
Venue: online
