
Crash Course Mythology
Date de parution : 24 février 2017
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | What Is Myth? Welcome to Crash Course World Mythology, our latest adventure (and this series may be literally adventurous) in education. Over the next 40 episodes... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Creation from the Void Today on Crash Course Mythology we’re starting in on creation stories. This week, we’ll focus on the creation of the universe out of nothing, or Ex... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Earth Mothers and Rebellious Sons So, we’re still talking about sex this week, but we’re talking about Earth Mothers and their children. We'll start with Gaia, and her son Kronos,... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Social Orders and Creation Stories In which Mike Rugnetta sits you down for a little talk about myth as a way to construct or reinforce social orders. Specifically, we’re going to... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Humans and Nature and Creation In which Mike Rugnetta brings you the final installation of our unit on creation myths. This week, we're talking about human beings and their... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Pantheons of the Ancient Mediterranean In which Mike Rugnetta begins our unit on pantheons, which are families of gods. We further define pantheons and talk about why they're important.... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Indian Pantheons In which Mike Rugnetta continues our unit on pantheons with the complex Indian pantheon, focusing on stories that were written in Sanskrit. We start... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | The Greeks and Romans - Pantheons Part 3 This week, we continue our look at various Pantheons, and Mike digs deep into the gods of the ancient Greeks. We're talking Zeus, Hera, Poseidon,... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | The Norse Pantheon This week, we're headed north. To check out the gods of the Northmen. Or the Norse. That's right, we're talking Thor, Loki, Freyr, Freya, Odin,... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 10 | African Pantheons and the Orishas So, today we’re talking about African Pantheons. Now, you might say, that’s ridiculous. Africa isn’t a single place with a single pantheon, and we’d... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | Theories of Myth This week, we're talking about theories of Myth. We'll look at the different ways mythology has been studied in the last couple of millenia, and... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 12 | Great Goddesses This week on Crash Course Mythology, we're talking archetypes. Specifically, we're talking about archetypes as they're applied to female deities.... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | Fire and Buffalo Goddesses This week, we’re continuing our talk about the characteristics of Goddesses, and we’re going to look in depth at two stories from parts of the world... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 14 | Archetypes and Male Divinities This week on Crash Course Mythology, Mike is teaching you about the archetypes that are often associated with male divinities. We’re going to talk... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 15 | Floods in the Ancient Near East This week on Crash Course Mythology, Mike is talking to you about floods. You may have heard the story of Noah and the Ark from the Bible, but that... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 16 | Yu the Engineer and Flood Stories from China On this Crash Course in World Mythology, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about floods and deluges, specifically in China. In Chinese myth, flood... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 17 | American Floods We don’t want to deluge you with information on the subject, but this week on Crash Course Mythology, Mike Rugnetta is talking once again about... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 18 | The Dying God This week on Crash Course World Mythology, it's the Circle of Life. And Death. And sometimes, Life again. Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about Dying... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 19 | Tricksters: An Introduction This week, Mike introduces you to Tricksters, starting with Anansi, the West African trickster god who is also sometimes a spider. Tricksters are,... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 20 | Hermes and Loki: Tricksters Part 2 In which Mike Rugnetta continues to teach you about tricksters. In this episode, we're talking about tricksters as culture heroes. Basically, a... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 21 | Coyote and Raven, American Tricksters Mike Rugnetta continues to teach you about Tricksters in myth, and this time we're headed to the Americas. Coyote and Raven appear in stories from... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 22 | The Apocalypse Mike Rugnetta is going to tell you stories of death, destruction, divine judgment, damnation, and the occasional happy ending. That's right, this... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 23 | Ragnarok Ragnarok! It's the end of the world, Norse style. It's got everything you want in an apocalypse. Earthquakes, destruction, armies of the dead, a... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 24 | The Hero's Journey and the Monomyth Let's get Heroic with Mike Rugnetta. This week on Crash Course World Mythology, we're talking about the Hero's Journey and the Monomyth, as... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 25 | The Epic of Gilgamesh This week, we're continuing our discussion of heroes by talking about Gilgamesh, star of one of the earliest written hero stories, The Epic of... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 26 | Rama and the Ramayana The next entry in our parade of heroes is Rama, the protagonist of the Ramayana, one of India’s oldest stories. We’re going to be talking about... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 27 | Galahad, Perceval, and the Holy Grail In which Mike Rugnetta quests for knowledge of the Holy Grail of Mythology. Which is the actual, literal Holy Grail! The cup of Christ! Legends... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 28 | The Mwindo Epic In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the hero of The Congo, Mwindo! Mike will tell you the stories of Mwindo's birth, his many deaths, and his... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 29 | Herakles. Or Hercules. A Problematic Hero This week, Mike Rugnetta re-introduces Herakles, the strong man of Greek and Roman myth. Strongman with a darkside, that is. You'll learn about... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 30 | Ma'ui, Oceania's Hero In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about Ma'ui, prominent hero of many cultures in Oceania, aka the Pacific Island nations. Ma'ui is just the kind... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 31 | Mythical Caves and Gardens This week, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about mythical gardens and caves, which appear in cultures all over the world. Caves and gardens can stand... |
Saison 1 - épisode 32 | Mythical Mountains Our mythical places series continues, and this week Mike Rugnetta is talking about some stories that revolve around mountains. Mountains loom large... | |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 33 | Mythical Trees This week on CC Myth, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about mythical trees. There are lots of trees in myth, and we've touched on some of them before,... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 34 | Cities of Myth This week on Crash Course Mythology, we're getting urban. Mike Rugnetta is the man with the orange umbrella who's about to give you a free tour of... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 35 | Monsters. They're Us, Man This week, we're starting our discussion of Mythical Creatures with the WORST creatures. Monsters. What makes a monster monstrous though? Mike... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 36 | Mythical Horse Horses have been human companions for thousands of years, and have been essential companions and tools for the development of human culture. So, it... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 37 | Serpents and Dragons This week, Mike is teaching you about the most mythic of mythological creatures: Dragons. Cultures across the world (and across Westeros) tell... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 38 | Witches and Hags In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the stories we tell about witches and hags. It's definitely unfortunate that a lot of social orders have... |