1. Students will be able to identify the major Greek and Roman 
Gods and Heroes and the stories associated with them.

2. Students will be able to identify the story patterns and 
narrative of Classical Myths, which reappear throughout Western 
Literature.

3. Students will learn to recognize symbols in Classical Myths 
and their use in Ancient Literature as guideposts to ideas and 
meanings.

4. Students will learn to identify and understand references to 
Classical Myths in literature and art.

5. Students will become aware of the role of Classical 
Mythology as a basic framework of reference in all of Western 
Literature and culture.

6. Students will read original works of Greek and Roman 
Literature in English translation and will engage in critical 
analysis of Classical Myth.

7. Students will produce writing which is stylistically 
appropriate and appropriate to the course and to the discipline 
of Classics.

I. The Meaning of Myth- Methods and Approaches

II. Early Greek Thought: The Myths of Creation in Hesiod's 
Theogony

III. Development of divine power: Apollo, Demeter, Hermes, and 
Aphrodite in the Homeric Hymns

IV: The basic story patterns: The wasteland, the return, the 
impossible quest, the abandoned hero, etc.

V: Hero tales in greek tragedy and comedy: The transformation 
of myth in dramatic literature

VI: Myth and the Philosophers: Plato's Republic, Gorgias, 
Phaedrus, Timaeus

VII: Myth in Roman Dress: The Elegiac poets and Ovid's 
Metamorphoses