events @ the Library

Monday, July 7
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Mark Schenker, Associate Dean at Yale College, will give a brief introduction to Greek Mythology, focusing on its origins in religious ritual and nature personification and the later development of anthropomorphic gods. His survey will include a discussion of the tension between the Ideal and the Monstrous, and how in all three of its phases—myths of creation, narratives of gods and mortals, and tales of human heroes—Greek mythology exerted an extensive influence on Western culture, especially literature.