1. Humanities Foundations Unit: The Literature  What is a myth?  Why do all peoples create them?  In what ways do creation myths reveal cultural values and beliefs?

2. Creation Myths from around the World  Do various creation myths share any common features?  How will your original creation myth evolve?

3. Genesis: Chapters 1 and 2  What does this myth reveal about Judeo-Christian beliefs and values?  How does it compare and contrast to the other creation myths we have considered?

4. Homer’s Iliad (excerpts)  Great Greek warrior Achilles  The wrath of Achilles  Culture of shame (rather than guilt)

5. The Iliad Book Six  Trojan warrior Hector  Greatest warrior of Troy—son of Hecuba and Priam  Bids farewell to his wife Andromache and son Astyanax

6. Achilles and Patroclus

7. Achilles and Hector

8. Wrath of Achilles against Hector

9. Priam ransoms body of Hector

10. Great Warrior Ajax  Expected to receive Achilles’ armor  Spurned— Odysseus received it instead  Only Greek warrior to commit suicide

12. Andromache Mourns Hector

13. Tecmessa tends to Ajax