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Artículo de Ana Vázquez Hoys sobre la importancia del agua en las civilizaciones antiguas.

This is the class document project wiki for ClassHis 60 at Stanford University, Spring Quarter 2011.

Reviewed by Antonio Ramírez de Verger, Universidad de Huelva (rdverger@uhu.es) Few of us would have believed only a few years ago that the Arts Faculties of Spanish universities would be taking in students with no previous knowledge of Latin.1 Today, up to fifty percent of first-year undergraduate students may have no Latin.

What does '2001: a Space Odyssey' have to do with Odysseus? How does Brad Pitt's Achilles in 'Troy' match up to Homer's original hero? And is Arnold Schwarzenegger the new Heracles? This collection of video animations and audio discussions examines how the heroes of Greek mythology have been represented in popular culture, from ancient times to the modern day. Odysseus is the archetypal questing hero - a blank canvas on which every era has projected its own values. Heracles is the original strongman. And Achilles is the fighter whose sexuality vies with his heel for popular attention. The videos mix archive film and TV clips with character animation, bringing a playful approach to classical myth, while the audio discussions shine a more scholarly light on how today's popular culture sees these myths differently from the Ancient Greeks.

Curso introductorio al griego (moodle, open university). En inglés.