Pt. 1. Lecture 1. Introduction ; Lecture 2. What is myth? ; Lecture 3. Why is myth? ; Lecture 4. "First was Chaos" ; Lecture 5. The reign of the Olympians ; Lecture 7. Demeter, Persephone, and the conquest of death ; Lecture 8. The Eleusinian Mysteries and the afterlife ; Lecture 9. Apollo and Artemis ; Lecture 10. Hermes and Dionysos ; Lecture 11. Laughter-loving Aphrodite ; Lecture 12. Culture, pre-history, and the "Great Goddess"
pt. 2. Lecture 13. Humans, heroes, and half-gods ; Lecture 14. Theseus and the "test-and-quest" myth ; Lecture 15. From myth to history and back again ; Lecture 16. The greatest hero of all ; Lecture 17. The Trojan War ; Lecture 18. The terrible House of Atreus ; Lecture 19. Blood vengeance, justice, and the Furies ; Lecture 20. The tragedies of King Oedipus ; Lecture 21. Monstrous females and female monsters ; Lecture 22. Roman founders, Roman fables ; Lecture 23. "Gods are useful" ; Lecture 24. From Ovid to the stars.