《希腊罗马神话》课程教学大纲
课程名称：希腊罗马神话 课程类别：选修课
适用专业：非英语专业 考核方式：考查
总学时、学分： 68 学时 4 学分 其中实践学时： 学时
一、课程教学目的
本课程融故事欣赏与文化解读为一体，通过系统完整的内容介绍，旨在提高学生的英语阅读能力和文学文化鉴赏水平，增进学生对西方文化精神的解读，帮助学生逐渐形成批判性思维习惯，并使之对宇宙自然世界和人类本我达到新的认知。
二、课程教学要求
1. To enable the learners, through reading the myths and having fun with them, to gain exposure to some of the major Greco-Roman myths which have shaped western culture and the way western people think;
2. To increa intellectual maturation and clarification of learners’ own values through the study of ideas and attitudes manifested in western myths and through a comparative study with tho of our own nation and epoch;
3. To help cultivate in learners a cultural receptivity by encouraging their critical thinking and cultural reading;
4. To help learners better understand the enigma we call life through discussing and evaluating the ways myths shape human consciousness and behavior.
三、先修课程
大学英语三四册
四、课程教学重、难点
重点介绍神话的定义和主要阅读方法，以及希腊罗马生简史，旨在帮助学生建立正确的神话观，激发学生学习的兴趣和积极性。
五、课程教学方法与教学手段
学生在课前独立熟悉课文，把握内容，完成基本的阅读任务。教师课上进行系统的内容梳理，对文本所蕴含的一些人文理念和精神做必要的文化解读；同时补充大量相关的课下文学阅读材料。在充份的课下阅读的基础上，学生在课上进行广泛的小组讨论和汇报，以期获得认识上的飞跃和思维的开拓。
六、课程教学内容
Semester 1
Introduction韶关面积（4学时）
奇葩的名字
1．教学内容
(1) Definition of Mythology
(2) Common Approaches to Mythology
(3) Greco-Roman Mythology: Classic and Popular
2颐和园和圆明园．重、难点提示
Why study Greco-Roman mythology?
What is mythology?
How to approach mythology?
Greek Mythology
Unit one: Myths of Univer Creation（6学时）
1蒙德里安作品．教学内容
Account from Hesiod’s Theogony
The Pelasgian Creation Myth
The Homeric-Orphic Creation Myths
Account from Metamorphos by Ovid
Account of Mythopoeia
Hindu Creation Myth
Chine Creation Myth
游戏项目2．重、难点提示
衡山旅游攻略
What are the similarities of the univer creation myths in this unit? List the basic elements common to most of them.
What are the scientific explanations of Chaos and beginning of the univer? Do some rearch and try to relate the different versions to the Big Bang theory and Darwin’s evolution theory?
What psychoanalytical motifs can you find in the myths? Discuss the meanings of “Chaos” and “Eros” according to Freudian theories of the unconscious and xuality.
用左顾右盼造句In what way does the creation myth of a nation or race or region help reveal its worldview,
life style and customs?
Unit two: Five Ages of Man（6学时）
1．教学内容
The Five Ages of Mankind
Hesiod’s Version
The Golden Age
The Silver Age
The Bronze Age
The Heroic Age
The iron Age
Alienation of the Human from The Divine
Prometheus and Mankind
Pandora’s Box
The Deucalion Deluge and Human Creation
2．重、难点提示
What picture of historical development do you get from the account of the Five Ages? Do you agree with Hesiod? Why, or why not?
