Classical Myth

Classical Myth

An Introduction

Powell, Barry B.

The University of Michigan Press

08/2024

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Mole

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9780472039722

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Preface
Part I. Definitions and Interpretation
Chapter 1: What is a Myth?
Chapter 2: Premodern Theories of Myth
Chapter 3: Modern Theories of Myth
Part II. Background
Chapter 4. Greek History
Chapter 5. Greek and Roman Society
Chapter 6. Greek Literature and the Development of Classical Myth
Part III. Case Studies
Chapter 7. Myth and the Near East: Hesiod's Theogony and Its Sources
Chapter 8. Myth and Religion: PersephonE, Orpheus, Dionysus
Chapter 9. Myth and the Hero: Heracles and Gilgamesh
Chapter 10. Myth and History: Crete and the Trojan War
Chapter 11. Myth and Folktale: The Odyssey
Chapter 12. Myth and Society: The Amazons
Chapter 13. Myth and Law: Orestes
Chapter 14. Roman Myth and Roman Religion: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Chapter 15. Myth and Politics: Theseus and the Aeneid of Vergil
Chapter 16. Myth and Art: The Greek Invention of The Narrative Style
Index and Glossary
Charts:
Chronology of the Ancient World
The Greek and Roman Pantheon
Maps
Map I. Greece, The Aegean Sea, and Western Asia Minor
Map II. The Ancient Mediterranean
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Classics; myth; Greeks; religion; Heracles; Odysseus; Aeneas; Gilgamesh; near eastern myth; alphabetic writing; allegory; Hesiod; Amazons; folktale; legend; Ovid; Greek art; Orpheus; Dionysus; Theseus; mythologies; labyrinth; myth and art; myth and religion; prehistory; Thebes; Troy; Iliad; Odyssey; Oedipus; Bronze Age; Homer; Greece; Rome; Greek alphabet