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Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
MYTHOLOGY I	LAT315	5. Semester	2 + 0	2.0	2.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	Turkish
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery	Lecture
Course Coordinator
Instructors	RUKİYE ÖZTÜRK
Assistants
Goals	The purpose of this course is to teach the students that the use of the myths in literature has an importance as great as its use in plastic arts has; that a myth is just like a piece of clay or dough which you can shape and use for your own particular purpose in many different ways as you wish; that the different fields of the classical literature such as history, geography, philosophy rhetorics, epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, Old and Middle Comedy, elegy, hymns and epigrams are full of the examples of such uses ,which involve in general previous knowledge to understand and appreciate them and it is the purpose of this course to provide them with this knowledge so that they may not be at a loss when they come upon a passage where a myth is related in a certain context, in a certain way and for a certain purpose; that they may better understand not only the classical authors but also the authors such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Molier, Dante, Goethe, etc. after the conclusion of this course.
Course Content	Purposes and ways of use of the myths in different fields of literature (rhetorics, philosophy, history, geography, epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, Old and Middle Comedy, elegy, hymns and epigrames)
Learning Outcomes	1) Contribution to students’ knowledge and discernment of Greco-Latin literature and its continuation in the literary tradition of Europe 2) Cotibution to students’ discernment of Greko- Roman humanistic mentality and its importance as a sourse of common European culture 3) Contribution to students’ knowledge and discernment of Roman political and social history and ability to compare reoccurring conditions, events and personalities in history 4) Contribution to students’ gaining the ability to do independent and objecting reserch with a critical eye