A series of lectures delivered by Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma in which he explores the world's greatest myths. Beginning with the Trojan War and the Illiad and moving through the Bronze age in the Mediterranean with Theseus and Oedipus, Mesopotamia and Gilgamesh, the three great religions from the Middle East, the Roman Empire in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus and Augustus, Alexander the Great, the British Isles, Beowulf...

Features some of the finest college professors in America, lecturing on literature written from biblical times to the modern era.

Features some of the finest college professors in America, lecturing on literature written from biblical times to the modern era.

Features some of the finest college professors in America, lecturing on literature written from biblical times to the modern era.

Frist, learn about Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings, then how fantasy makes use of magic, including a look at those masters of magic, wizards.

Explore the modernism literary movement with Professor David Thorburn. See how modernist authors created new techniques to reflect an increasingly complex post-Victorian world. This tradition includes some of the greatest authors the world has known--Joyce, Faulkner, Conrad, Woolf, Kafka.

In his 36 lectures, Father Joseph W. Koterski talks about the body of writings from the Old Testament that have influenced theologians, philosophers, and laypeople for millennia. He presents these teachings within the Jewish and Christian traditions and compares the varying versions of these texts.