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The Program announces a Winter 2002 seminar course:
INDO-EUROPEAN STUDIES C160/C260
Indo-European Comparative Mythology and Poetics
Instructor: Prof. Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
Time: Mondays, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
Place: Dodd Hall Room 220
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Comparison of major Indo-European mythological and poetic traditions and reconstruction of their common sources. Topics include divinities and their names; symbolic systems in social context; myths, folk narratives, belief systems; relations with other traditions; literary continuations of mythopoetic material.
PREREQUISITES
Undergraduate Students: Familiarity with original sources in at least one ancient Indo-European language (not necessarily in the original language(s); in other words: familiarity with, for example, the Homeric poems [in English translation], or Beowulf [in English translation], etc.).
Graduate Students: Ability to read original sources in at least one ancient Indo-European language.
REQUIREMENTS
(In addition to assigned readings [in English for undergraduate students]): Two papers, one short (analyzing a problem based on textual evidence, using original sources [graduate students] or scholarly translations [udergraduate students]), one long (applying the concepts and methodologies introducted in lectures and course readings).
For further information, please contact Prof. Vyacheslav Ivanov ((310) 825-5637; e-mail).