Homer, The Odyssey

Odysseus, Laterna Magika, Prague
Lotus Eaters | Cyclops | Shades

Week 2 Comparative material:

• Klaus Theweleit: Male Fantasies (extract).
• Mary Helms: Odysseus’s Sail (extract).
• Mauss on the gift (extract).
• Shanks, Art and the Early Greek State.
• Several versions of the song "Mack the Knife." How does variation affect the identity of the song?
  Berliner Ensemble | Louis Armstrong | Ella Fitzgerald | Nina Simone

Week 3 Comparative material:

• Orlan and performance art
• Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Will. An extract.
• Mauss: Techniques of the body
• Guillermo Gomez Peña: Mexterminator
• Marvin Gaye: “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”