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  • Classical Mythology
    45
    • Lesson1.1
      In the beginning 30 min
    • Quiz1.1
      Creation myths 1 question
    • Quiz1.2
      Before the Olympians 1 question
    • Quiz1.3
      Family Tree 1 question
    • Lesson1.2
      Source 1 – The Creation – Hesiod 30 min
    • Lesson1.3
      Source 2 – The Creation – Ovid 30 min
    • Lesson1.4
      Source 3 – Typhoeus 30 min
    • Lesson1.5
      Source analysis – sources 1 to 3 30 min
    • Lesson1.6
      Research task 30 min
    • Lesson1.7
      Source 4 – Pandora 30 min
    • Lesson1.8
      Source 5 – The Punishment of Prometheus 30 min
    • Lesson1.9
      Source analysis – sources 4 & 5 30 min
    • Lesson1.10
      Research task 30 min
    • Lesson1.11
      Source 6 – The Ages of the World 30 min
    • Lesson1.12
      Source 7 – After the Flood 30 min
    • Lesson1.13
      Source analysis – sources 6 & 7 30 min
    • Lesson1.14
      The Underworld 30 min
    • Lesson1.15
      Visiting the Underworld 30 min
    • Lesson1.16
      Underworld Source 1 – Circe’s Instructions to Odysseus 30 min
    • Lesson1.17
      Source Analysis – source 1 30 min
    • Lesson1.18
      Underworld Source 2 – Pausanias (ekphrasis) 30 min
    • Lesson1.19
      Research 30 min
    • Lesson1.20
      Underworld Source 3 – Dionysus visits the Underworld 30 min
    • Lesson1.21
      Underworld Source 4 – The punishment of the wicked 30 min
    • Lesson1.22
      Source Analysis – source 3 (Aristophanes) 30 min
    • Lesson1.23
      Source Analysis – source 4 (Plato) 30 min
    • Lesson1.24
      Underworld Source 5 – Lucretius 30 min
    • Lesson1.25
      Source Analysis – source 5 30 min
    • Lesson1.26
      Underworld Source 6a – The Entrance to Hades 30 min
    • Lesson1.27
      Underworld Source 6b – The Ferry across the River Styx 30 min
    • Lesson1.28
      Underworld Source 6c – The Sibyl helps Aeneas cross the Styx 30 min
    • Lesson1.29
      Underworld Source 6d – Tartarus 30 min
    • Lesson1.30
      Underworld Source 7 – Orpheus & Eurydice 30 min
    • Lesson1.31
      Source Analysis – sources 6 & 7 30 min
    • Lesson1.32
      Names and characters from Classical Mythology 30 min
    • Lesson1.33
      Reading 1 – Interpretation and definition of classical mythology 30 min
    • Lesson1.34
      Reading 2 – historical background to Greek mythology 30 min
    • Lesson1.35
      Reading 3 – myths of creation 30 min
    • Lesson1.36
      Reading 4 – Zeus’ rise to power 30 min
    • Lesson1.37
      Reading 5 – the twelve Olympians 30 min
    • Lesson1.38
      Reading 6 – the nature of the gods 30 min
    • Lesson1.39
      AUDIO – classical mythology 1-6 30 min
    • Lesson1.40
      AUDIO – classical mythology 7-12 30 min
    • Lesson1.41
      VIDEO – Overview of Ancient Greek history, religion and culture 05 hour
    • Lesson1.42
      VIDEO – Overview of Greek art – warning – mature content and nudity 30 min
  • Classical Literature - Course Guide
    2
    • Lesson2.1
      Overview 30 min
    • Lesson2.2
      Caveat 30 min
  • Classical Drama
    9
    • Lesson3.1
      The concept of drama 30 min
    • Lesson3.2
      Tragedy 30 min
    • Lesson3.3
      Comedy 30 min
    • Lesson3.4
      Sophocles 30 min
    • Lesson3.5
      Euripides 30 min
    • Lesson3.6
      Aristophanes 30 min
    • Lesson3.7
      VIDEO – tragedy, religion, myth and rituals 30 min
    • Lesson3.8
      VIDEO – Greek drama – overview 01 hour
    • Lesson3.9
      VIDEO – The chorus in Greek drama 30 min
  • Classical Literature - Antigone
    5
    • Lesson4.1
      Introduction – Antigone 30 min
    • Lesson4.2
      Leadership 30 min
    • Lesson4.3
      Conflict 30 min
    • Lesson4.4
      Heroism 30 min
    • Lesson4.5
      VIDEO – Antigone 03 hour 30 min
  • Classical Literature - Medea

    A study of Euripides' tragedy, Medea. A play performed in Athens, based upon the myth of Medea, Jason and the Argonauts and the aftermath of the quest for the Golden Fleece.

    4
    • Lesson5.1
      Introduction 30 min
    • Lesson5.2
      Women in society 30 min
    • Lesson5.3
      Conflict 30 min
    • Lesson5.4
      VIDEO – Medea 02 hour 30 min
  • Classical Literature - Aeneid
    6
    • Lesson6.1
      Heroism 30 min
    • Lesson6.2
      Leadership 30 min
    • Lesson6.3
      Fate versus free will 30 min
    • Lesson6.4
      Women in society 30 min
    • Lesson6.5
      VIDEO – The Aeneid 01 hour
    • Lesson6.6
      VIDEO – Aeneas visits the underworld (book VI) 30 min
  • Life in Classical Greece - Power and Freedom
    1
    • Lesson7.1
      Athenian Democracy
  • Life in the Roman World - Power and Freedom videos
    1
    • Lesson8.1
      Videos
  • Life in the Roman World - Religion & Belief - Introduction
    11
    • Lesson9.1
      Public and private religion 30 min
    • Lesson9.2
      Domestic religion (religion of the household) 30 min
    • Lesson9.3
      The household gods 30 min
    • Lesson9.4
      Belief in the Lares 30 min
    • Lesson9.5
      Janus and the spirits of the door 30 min
    • Lesson9.6
      The genius of the paterfamilas 30 min
    • Lesson9.7
      Giving birth 30 min
    • Lesson9.8
      Infancy 30 min
    • Lesson9.9
      Coming of age & marriage 30 min
    • Lesson9.10
      Source analysis 30 min
    • Lesson9.11
      Archaeological source analysis 30 min
  • Life in the Roman World - State Religion
    8
    • Lesson10.1
      The nature of religion – contractual, ritualistic 30 min
    • Lesson10.2
      The nature of the gods – polytheism, anthropomorphism and no moral code 30 min
    • Lesson10.3
      Rituals of worship – prayer, sacrifice, libation and votive offerings 30 min
    • Lesson10.4
      Festivals – Lupercalia and the Saturnalia 30 min
    • Lesson10.5
      Divination and interpretation – omens, birds, entrails, weather signs, dreams, Sibylline books and associated priesthoods: the augurs, quindecemviri and haruspices 30 min
    • Lesson10.6
      Vestal Virgins 30 min
    • Lesson10.7
      Imperial Cult 30 min
    • Lesson10.8
      Importance of state religion 30 min
  • Life in the Roman World - Domestic Religion
    5
    • Lesson11.1
      Role and worship of Vesta, the Lares, the Penates, Janus, and genius 30 min
    • Lesson11.2
      Religious rituals associated with birth and coming of age 30 min
    • Lesson11.3
      Rituals at birth — Juno Lucina, father’s acceptance of child, name giving and the bulla 30 min
    • Lesson11.4
      Rituals to mark coming of age — religious rites at lararium for boys and girls, the age at which the ritual took place, dedication of bulla, presentation of adult toga and dedication of toys 30 min
    • Lesson11.5
      Importance of domestic religion to Roman life 30 min
  • Life in the Roman World - Mystery Religions
    6
    • Lesson12.1
      Cult of Bacchus 30 min
    • Lesson12.2
      Cult of Mithras 30 min
    • Lesson12.3
      Cult of Isis 30 min
    • Lesson12.4
      Cult of Cybele Magna Mater 30 min
    • Lesson12.5
      Attractions of the cults 30 min
    • Lesson12.6
      Attitudes of Romans to the cults 30 min
  • Life in the Roman World - Religious tolerance in the Roman world
    3
    • Lesson13.1
      Attitudes towards Judaism 30 min
    • Lesson13.2
      Attitudes towards Christianity 30 min
    • Lesson13.3
      Attitudes towards Druidism 30 min
  • Life in the Roman World - Philosophical attitudes to religious beliefs
    3
    • Lesson14.1
      Stoicism 30 min
    • Lesson14.2
      Epicureanism 30 min
    • Lesson14.3
      Impact of philosophical thought on Roman beliefs 30 min
  • Life in Classical Greece - Religion & Belief - Introduction
    21
    • Lesson15.1
      General introduction 30 min
    • Lesson15.2
      VIDEO – Introduction to Greek Religion 03 hour 30 min
    • Lesson15.3
      Sources of knowledge for Greek religion 30 min
    • Lesson15.4
      What religion meant to the Athenians 30 min
    • Lesson15.5
      Recap questions 30 min
    • Lesson15.6
      The main principles of Greek religion 30 min
    • Lesson15.7
      Athens – the Main Gods 30 min
    • Lesson15.8
      Embeddedness 30 min
    • Lesson15.9
      Recap questions 30 min
    • Lesson15.10
      Polytheism and piety 30 min
    • Lesson15.11
      Recap question 30 min
    • Lesson15.12
      The limitations of the Olympian gods 30 min
    • Lesson15.13
      Divine justice 30 min
    • Lesson15.14
      The gods and morality 30 min
    • Lesson15.15
      The gods and pity 30 min
    • Lesson15.16
      Source analysis – sources 30 min
    • Lesson15.17
      Source analysis – questions 30 min
    • Lesson15.18
      Source analysis – note on sources 30 min
    • Lesson15.19
      Source analysis – making comparisons 30 min
    • Lesson15.20
      VIDEO – Anthropomorphism 30 min
    • Lesson15.21
      The origins of Greek religion – Homer and Hesiod 30 min
  • Life in Classical Greece - State Religion
    23
    • Lesson16.1
      Contact with the gods – Introduction 30 min
    • Lesson16.2
      RITUALS OF WORSHIP 30 min
    • Lesson16.3
      Contact with the gods – Prayer 30 min
    • Lesson16.4
      Contact with the gods – Sacrifice 30 min
    • Lesson16.5
      Contact with the gods – Libation 30 min
    • Lesson16.6
      Contact with the gods – Votive offerings 30 min
    • Lesson16.7
      BUILDING OF WORKSHIP – The Parthenon 30 min
    • Lesson16.8
      DIVINATION & INTERPRETATION 30 min
    • Lesson16.9
      Divination & interpretation – Oracles 30 min
    • Lesson16.10
      Divination & interpretation – Omens 30 min
    • Lesson16.11
      Divination & interpretation – Entrails 30 min
    • Lesson16.12
      Divination & interpretation – Weather signs 30 min
    • Lesson16.13
      Divination & interpretation – Dreams 30 min
    • Lesson16.14
      Divination & interpretation – Delphi 30 min
    • Lesson16.15
      Divination & interpretation – Dodona 30 min
    • Lesson16.16
      SELECTION & ROLE OF PRIESTS 30 min
    • Lesson16.17
      Contact with the gods – Priests 30 min
    • Lesson16.18
      Contact with the gods – Temples 30 min
    • Lesson16.19
      Contact with the gods – Essay and extracts 30 min
    • Lesson16.20
      FESTIVALS 30 min
    • Lesson16.21
      Festivals – Panathenaia 30 min
    • Lesson16.22
      Festivals – City Dionysia 30 min
    • Lesson16.23
      VIDEO – hero cults 30 min
  • Life in Classical Greece - Mystery Religions
    7
    • Lesson17.1
      Contact with the gods – Incubation, Asclepius and healing 30 min
    • Lesson17.2
      The cult of Dionysus 30 min
    • Lesson17.3
      Eleusinian Mysteries 30 min
    • Lesson17.4
      The attraction of the mystery cults 30 min
    • Lesson17.5
      Attitudes towards cults 30 min
    • Lesson17.6
      The Afterlife and Mystery Religions – Essay and extracts 30 min
    • Lesson17.7
      VIDEO – mystery cults 30 min
  • Life in Classical Greece - Domestic Religion
    17
    • Lesson18.1
      Religion in the home – Introduction 30 min
    • Lesson18.2
      Religion in the home – Household gods 30 min
    • Lesson18.3
      Religion in the home – The Herm 30 min
    • Lesson18.4
      Religion in the home – Hekate 30 min
    • Lesson18.5
      Religion in the home – Apollo of the Streets 30 min
    • Lesson18.6
      Ceremonies connected with the family: 30 min
    • Lesson18.7
      Birth 30 min
    • Lesson18.8
      Coming of age 30 min
    • Lesson18.9
      Marriage 30 min
    • Lesson18.10
      Death 30 min
    • Lesson18.11
      Domestic Religion – Essay and extracts 30 min
    • Lesson18.12
      Religion in the countryside 30 min
    • Lesson18.13
      Festivals – Monthly & Agricultural 30 min
    • Lesson18.14
      Festivals – In honour of the dead 30 min
    • Lesson18.15
      Festivals – Stages in a person’s life celebrated 30 min
    • Lesson18.16
      Festivals – Essay and extracts 30 min
    • Lesson18.17
      Contact with the gods – Ecstatic cult – Dionysus 30 min
  • Life in Classical Greece - Gender Roles within Religious Worship
    11
    • Lesson19.1
      Parthenoi – virgins 30 min
    • Lesson19.2
      Priestesses 30 min
    • Lesson19.3
      Priestesses – Pythia, priestesses of Athena 30 min
    • Lesson19.4
      Participation in cults 30 min
    • Lesson19.5
      Midwives 30 min
    • Lesson19.6
      Tending corpse and grave 30 min
    • Lesson19.7
      The role of women in festivals – Skira 30 min
    • Lesson19.8
      The role of women in festivals – Thesmophoria 30 min
    • Lesson19.9
      The role of women in festivals – Haloa 30 min
    • Lesson19.10
      The role of women in festivals – Panathenaia 30 min
    • Lesson19.11
      The impact of women on religion 30 min
  • Greek and Roman Views on the After-Life section 1

    Treatment of the dead

    8
    • Lesson20.1
      Evidence from burial practices 30 min
    • Lesson20.2
      Cremation and inhumation 30 min
    • Lesson20.3
      The trappings of burial 30 min
    • Lesson20.4
      Festivals of the dead 30 min
    • Lesson20.5
      Death and burial in Athens 30 min
    • Lesson20.6
      Death in Rome 30 min
    • Lesson20.7
      Provision for the dead 30 min
    • Lesson20.8
      Dead men walking 30 min
  • Greek and Roman Views on the After-Life section 2

    The mythological Underworld and the attitude of philosophers to the Underworld

    13
    • Lesson21.1
      The Mythological Underworld 30 min
    • Lesson21.2
      The Attitude of Philosophers to the Underworld 30 min
    • Lesson21.3
      Alternative Views or Lack of Them 30 min
    • Lesson21.4
      The Mystery Religions 30 min
    • Lesson21.5
      Eleusinian Mysteries 30 min
    • Lesson21.6
      Bacchic Mysteries 30 min
    • Lesson21.7
      Orphism 30 min
    • Lesson21.8
      Morality and Good Conduct 30 min
    • Lesson21.9
      Pythagoreanism 30 min
    • Lesson21.10
      Cybele 30 min
    • Lesson21.11
      Isis 30 min
    • Lesson21.12
      Mithras 30 min
    • Lesson21.13
      Christianity 30 min
  • Life in Classical Greece - Death and the Afterlife
    11
    • Lesson22.1
      The Afterlife 30 min
    • Lesson22.2
      Hades – the traditional view 30 min
    • Lesson22.3
      Other beliefs – Plato 30 min
    • Lesson22.4
      Other beliefs – Conversion of dead into stars 30 min
    • Lesson22.5
      Other beliefs – Transmigration of souls 30 min
    • Lesson22.6
      Other beliefs – Orphism 30 min
    • Lesson22.7
      Burial customs – recap 30 min
    • Lesson22.8
      Traditional beliefs about the afterlife including reward and punishment — Elysian fields, Asphodel plains and Tartarus 30 min
    • Lesson22.9
      Remembrance of the dead — funeral rites, Genesia and Anthesteria 30 min
    • Lesson22.10
      Alternative beliefs — Orphism and Pythagoreanism 30 min
    • Lesson22.11
      Attitudes towards the dead 30 min
  • Life in Classical Greece - Challengers of traditional beliefs
    3
    • Lesson23.1
      philosophical attitudes towards the nature of the gods, for example Plato and Xenophanes 30 min
    • Lesson23.2
      philosophical attitudes towards beliefs about the dead and the afterlife, for example Plato and Democritus 30 min
    • Lesson23.3
      Impact on belief 30 min

    Provision for the dead

    Belief in a life continuing within the tomb helps to explain the gifts and grave goods and the occasional supply of food over the years.   Large tombs in Roman times might even include a dining room for the graveside banquet.  Petronius in his Satyricon (71) makes a wealthy freedman Trimalchio go into great and exaggerated detail as he provides for his own tomb ‘to secure a life after death’.   He proceeds

    The tomb should have a frontage of 100 feet and a depth of 200 feet; for I want to have every kind of apple and grapes in profusion growing around my ashes.   It is a serious mistake for someone to have a fine house while he is alive and yet to have no thought for the home where we will have a much longer stay.

    Trimalchio sets out the details of the inscription for the tomb, asks for a dining table to be included and below his statue wishes to have displayed his little dog, wreaths and perfume and a list of the fights of his favourite gladiator!

    The common inscription found in Roman tombs after First Century BC as well as in Imperial times ‘sit terra tibi levis’ (abbreviated to STTL) ‘may the earth lie light upon you’ has also a significance for the idea of the continuing life of the deceased in his grave.   Many inscriptions reinforce the belief.

    Here is my eternal home, here my dwelling place and here I shall be for all time.

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