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AN N EA M75

Foundation Myths: Kings, Heroes, and Sorceresses in Ancient and Modern Imaginations

5 units Literary and Cultural Analysis Historical Analysis

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Lecture and discussion.

Fall 2026: 1 lecture and 12 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.

Also listed as CLASSIC M75 (waitlist, 132 of 132 enrolled): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.

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From the registrar's catalog

(Same as Classics M75.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of ancient myths from across the world as narratives that are still foundational for present identities. Such myths did and still do legitimize the beliefs and institutions of those who tell such stories by projecting the present reality into a forgotten past. In this way, they can justify inequitable social structures controlled by kings, while heroes and sorceresses also challenge them to empower oppressed populations and reorder societies. Examination of mythologies featuring such legendary characters from ancient East Asia, West and Central Asia, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe, and the Americas. Features expert guest lecturers. Exploration of and connection with mythologies of the ancient world that may be foundational for present identities. Study focuses on four thematic units of foundations of humanity, myths of the state, myths of collapse and refoundation, and foundations of the present. P/NP or letter grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

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Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 13 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · Winnerman, J.P. · 132 of 132 enrolled

Nothing read since 1 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 2 months before that, filled by 15.

132 of 132 · no seats left in its discussions
17 Aug 12:329 Sep 01:271 Oct 14:22 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 644 hours its hourly record covers, 26%, and did not look in 476. dibs had no hourly record before 4 Sep, which is the other 439 of 1083 plotted.132 of 132 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, and no seats left in its discussions. Seats from 17 Aug 12:32 to 1 Oct 14:22, 117 to 132. dibs read 168 of the 644 hours its hourly record here covers, 26%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 476 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 4 September at 19:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 439 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

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The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.