My name is Peter Struck. This course is called Greek and
Roman Mythology. And in it we're going to see wonderful
people, doing wonderful things and terrible people, doing terrible things. It's a story where we
see intense situations. Warfare, family, good things and bad,
evil characters, great characters, and the kinds of troubles that
they get themselves into, and sometimes get themselves out of, too. These broad stories give us a chance to
ask really broad questions about what it means to be human. About good and evil, about marriage,
about kinship, about madness, death. All kinds of broad questions
get raised up in these stories. What we're gonna study in the Greek and
Roman materials are some of the oldest strands of cultural DNA that are the most
widely diffuse across humankind. And getting a sense of these stories, is gonna give us a real good broad grasp
on some very important human questions. So it's free and open to the public, and
I look forward to seeing you in class.