Ancient Mythology and Religion
Lectures: 30
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 0
ECTS credit: 3
Lecturer(s): prof. dr. Marinčič Marko
The course follows two parallel paths:
1) overview of Greek and Roman mythology and religion in comparison with other cultures of the ancient Mediterranean (Near East, Egypt);
- myths about gods and heroes;
- temples, rituals, priests, institutions, iconography;
- pagan and Christian religion (religious conflict, cultural synthesis);
2) introduction to ancient and modern theories and interpretive approaches (ancient philosophy from the Presocratics to Neoplatonism; modern approaches from the Enlightenment to the 20th century: Fontenelle, Vico, Hume, Heyne, Herder, Schelling, Frazer and the ritualists, W. Otto, Propp's narratology, psychoanalysis, Lévi-Straussian stucturalism, French historical anthropology).
SLO:
Prevodi: Homer: Odiseja (1964; 212 str.) COBISS.SI-ID – 964353; Heziod: Teogonija, Dela in dnevi (1974; 195 str.) COBISS.SI-ID – 2814721; Ovidij: Metamorfoze (slov. izbor 1977, 159 str.). COBISS.SI-ID – 2818305
M. Marinčič, Grška književnost arhaične dobe. Zgodovinski, problemski in bibliografski uvod, Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta 2004 (str. 19-63; 68-70; 77-85; 112-18; 121-29; 163-66; 177-79; 198-99). COBISS.SI-ID – 215041536
Literatura v angleščini, gl. spodaj
Obvezno branje enega od spodnjih del po izbiri (povprečno 220 strani):
M. Detienne, Iznajdba mitologije. Ljubljana: Studia Humanitatis, 2007 COBISS.SI-ID – 240440832
M. Eliade, Zgodovina religioznih verovanj in idej. Ljubljana, DZS, 1996 (poglavja o grško-rimski antiki) COBISS.SI-ID – 59577856
E. M. Meletinski, Poetika mita, Ljubljana: Literatura, 2006 COBISS.SI-ID – 228364544
W. F. Otto, Bogovi Grčije, Hieron, Ljubljana: Nova revija, 1998 COBISS.SI-ID – 78406400
V. J. Propp, Morfologija pravljice, Ljubljana: Studia humanitatis, 2005 COBISS.SI-ID – 221899776
J.-P. Vernant, P. Vidal-Naquet, Mit in tragedija v stari Grčiji, Ljubljana: ŠOU, 1994 COBISS.SI-ID – 45043456
P. Veyne: So Grki verjeli v svoje mite? Esej o konstitutivni imaginaciji, Ljubljana: Založba /*cf, 1998 COBISS.SI-ID – 76848128
P. Vidal-Naquet, Črni lovec, Ljubljana: ŠKUC/Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete, 1985 COBISS.SI-ID – 17480449
EN.:
Barry B. Powell, Classical myth, Upper Saddle River (N.J.) : Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004 COBISS.SI-ID - 512516992.
R. G. A. Buxton, The complete world of Greek mythology, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004, 240 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 213513728
Mary Beard et al., Religions of Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. COBISS.SI-ID - 12718637