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