Great Mythologies of the World

By: The Great Courses, Grant L. Voth, Julius H. Bailey, Kathryn McClymond, Robert André LaFleur

Narrated by: Grant L. Voth, Julius H. Bailey, Kathryn McClymond, Robert André LaFleur

The deep-seated origins and wide-reaching lessons of ancient myths built the foundation for our modern legacies. Explore the mythologies of Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Learn what makes these stories so important, distinctive, and able to withstand the test of time. Discover how, despite geographical implausibilities, many myths from across the oceans share themes, morals, and archetypes.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.©2015 The Great Courses (P)2015 The Teaching Company, LLC

Amazing Course!

This course is one of the best audio book I ever listened to! It will take you from the myths of ancient Europe, turn south to Africa then East to reach China, Korea, Japan and the Pacific islands, to ends perfectly with the Native Americans myths. Incredible and fascinating.

However, I have to point out like many other reviews that the performance in part 2 is bad. The speaker's talk is with a very monotone voice while stuttering and hesitating all the time. The way the lesson is built is also problematic for a better understanding. This decrease the interest of the African myths, which is a bummer.

That being said, the 3 others parts are amazing, and this class should be mandatory to everybody on Audible!

Great Stories and Analysis

Where does Great Mythologies of the World rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is one my my favorites.

What did you like best about this story?

I think that I like the African Myths the best because they were so enjoyable to listen to and the professor was dedicated the stories.

Any additional comments?

I really like this great course but I had one issue with Professor Kathryn McClymond. She was teaching very well about the Greeks, Romans, etc but she kept mentioning the sexist nature of the ancients. It didn't contribute to the story or the analysis and was very distracting. I didn't mind the first time but she did it multiple times.
The other professors were great too and would also mention the racist or sexist natures in the mythology they discussed but she did it like the ancients were insulting her personally.
Still a great listen. Sorry about the rant.

really good

really good super intelligent speakers brokedown into consonants and I found some continents to be more interesting then others super interesting fun run listen

Some parts good, some long and tedious

The African myths were way too many, in fact they're little more than village - level recent (post colonisation) folk tales, and do not grab the attention like ancient tales that's the core of centuries old civilisations. Native American lore were good, Polynesian tales were fascinating. Went really quick over the classics (Greece, Egyptian). Learned a lot over all.

first lecturer is amazing. 2nd (African myths) is a diversity hire. 1/5 for him

the first lecturer is amazing!!! the 2nd (African myths) is a diversity hire, 1/5 for the second lol narrator who can’t even read his own lesson content well.

last lecturer is great as well, but needs help pronouncing some things.