Odyssey of the West I: Hebrews and Greeks

by Timothy B. Shutt · 2007

This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in chronological sequence-a series of major works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in their own right and in cultural dialogue with other traditions. In the process, the course engages many of the most perennial and far-reaching questions that we face in our daily lives.

Lecture 1 From Sumer to Athens

Lecture 2 The Epic of Gilgamesh

Lecture 3 The Hebrew Bible: Historical Background and Genesis

Lecture 4 The Hebrew Bible: Exodus and the Covenant

Lecture 5 The Hebrew Bible: Psalms, Prophets, The Song of Songs, and Job

Lecture 6 Greece: From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Age

Lecture 7 The Iliad

Lecture 8 Homer: The Odyssey

Lecture 9 Hesiod and Lyric Poetry

Lecture 10 Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus

Lecture 11 Greek Tragedy: Sophocles

Lecture 12 Greek Tragedy: Euripides

Lecture 13 Herodotus of Halicarnassus

Lecture 14 Greek Art

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