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Classical Myth
ISBN: 9780136061717 | 0136061710
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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Comprehensive and scholarly, this well-designed text presents Greek and Roman myths in a lively and easy-to-read manner. The material has been rearranged to make it easier to find and the new edition has been streamlined. It features fresh translations, numerous illustrations (ancient and modern) of classical myths and legends, and commentary that emphasizes the anthropological, historical, religious, sociological, and economic contexts in which the myths were told. It also provides a cultural context so that readers can see how mythology has i... MORE
| Preface | |
| Definitions and Background | |
| The Nature of Myth | |
| The Cultural Context of Classical Myth | |
| The Development of Classical Myth | |
| Divine Myth | |
| Myths of Creation: The Rise of Zeus | |
| Myths of Creation:The Origins of Mortals | |
| Myths of the Olympians: Zeus, His Wife Hera, and His Brothers | |
| Myths of the Olympians:... MORE | |
| Myths of the Olympians: The Female Deities | |
| Myths of Fertility: Demeter | |
| Myths of Fertility: Dionysus | |
| Myths of Death: Encounters with the Underworld | |
| Legends | |
| Introduction to Heroic Myth | |
| Perseus and Myths of the Argive Plain | |
| Heracles | |
| Theseus and the Myths of Athens | |
| The Myths of Crete | |
| Oedipus and the Myths of Thebes | |
| Jason and the Myths of Iolcus and Calydon | |
| The Trojan War | |
| The Fall of Troy and its Aftermath | |
| The Return of Odysseus | |
| Roman Myth | |
| Legends of Aeneas | |
| Legends of Early Rome | |
| Interpretation | |
| Theories of Myth InterpretationList of Perspectives | |
| The Brothers Grimm | |
| Goya's Saturn Devouring His Children | |
| The Biblical Creation Story | |
| Prometheus and the Romantics | |
| The Loves of Zeusin European Art | |
| The Three Graces | |
| Bernini's Apollo and Daphn+¼ | |
| Pan and Pastoral Tradition | |
| Venus: Images of Beautyin European Art | |
| Rossetti's Proserpina Holding the Pomegranate | |
| H.D.'s "Adonis" | |
| Titian's Bacchus and Ariadn+¼ | |
| Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy | |
| Michelangelo's The Sibyl of Cumae | |
| Dante's Inferno | |
| J.R.R. Tolkien's Hero in The Lord of the Rings | |
| Vasari's Perseus and Andromeda | |
| Classical Myth and the Stars | |
| Daumier's Hercules in the Augean Stables | |
| Boccaccio's Misfortunes of Famous Men | |
| Picasso's Minotauromachia | |
| Brueghel's The Fall of Icarus | |
| Gustave Moreau's Oedipus and the Sphinx | |
| Seneca's Medea | |
| Delacroix's M+¿d+¿e | |
| Yeats' "Leda and the Swan" | |
| The Beauty of Helen | |
| The Trojan War in European Art | |
| Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida | |
| Ulysses | |
| The Legends of Odysseus in European Art | |
| Cavafy's "Ithaca" | |
| Aeneas, Augustus, and Mussolini | |
| David's Oath of the Horatii | |
| The Lucretia of Rembrandt and Shakespeare | |
| Apuleius' Allegory of Cupid and Psych+¼Maps | |
| The Ancient Mediterranean (inside front cover) | |
| Southern and Central Greece | |
| The Ancient Near East | |
| Ancient Italy | |
| Imperial Rome | |
| Greece, the Aegean, and Western Asia Minor (inside back cover) | |
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