Classical Mythology Images and Insights

Name: Classical Mythology Images and Insights
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ISBN: 9780073407524

ISBN-10: 0073407526

ISBN-13: 9780073407524

Edition: 6th 2012

Authors: Stephen Harris, Gloria Platzner

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Book details

List price: $168.33
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 4/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1088
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English

Gloria Platzner teaches in the English and Humanities programs at California State University, Sacramento, including courses on Classical Mythology and World Mythology.



Preface



The Nature and Function of Myth



Introduction to Greek Myth



Ways of Interpreting Myth



Epic Myths and the Heroic Quest



In the Beginning: Hesiod's Creation Story



Alienation of the Human and Divine: Prometheus, Fire, and Pandora



The Divine Woman in Greek Mythology



The Olympian Family of Zeus: Sharing Rule of the Universe



In Touch with the Gods: Apollo's Oracle at Delphi



Dionysus: Rooted in Earth and Ecstasy



Land of No Return: The Gloomy Kingdom of Hades



Heroes of Myth: Man Divided Against Himself



Heroines of Myth: Women in Many Roles



Heroes at War: The Troy Saga



A Different Kind of Hero: The Quest of Odysseus



Tragic Heroes and Heroines



Myth and the Tragic Vision in the Theater of Dionysus: Euripides' Bacchae



The House of Atreus: Aeschylus's Oresteia



The Tragic House of Laius: Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle



A Different Perspective on Tragedy: Euripides' Medea



The World of Roman Myth



The Roman Vision: Greek Myths and Roman Realities



Virgil's Roman Epic: The Aeneid



The Retelling of Greek Myths: Ovid's Metamorphosis



The Western World's Transformations of Myth



The Persistence of Myth


Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Credits


Index