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| Preface | |
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| Definitions and Background | |
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| The Nature of Myth | |
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| The Cultural Context of Classical Myth | |
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| The Development of Classical Myth | |
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| Divine Myth | |
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| Myths of Creation: The Rise of Zeus | |
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| Myths of Creation: The Origins of Mortals | |
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| Myths of the Olympians: Zeus and Hera | |
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| Myths of the Olympians: The Male Deities | |
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| Myths of the Olympians: The Female Deities | |
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| Myths of Fertility: Demeter | |
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| Myths of Fertility: Dionysus | |
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| Myths of Death: Encounters with the Underworld | |
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| Legends | |
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| Introduction to Heroic Myth | |
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| Perseus and Myths of the Argive Plain | |
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| Heracles | |
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| Theseus and the Myths of Athens | |
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| The Myths of Crete | |
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| Oedipus and the Myths of Thebes | |
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| Jason and the Myths of Iolcus and Calydon | |
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| The Trojan War | |
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| The Fall of Troy | |
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| The Return of Odysseus | |
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| Roman Myth | |
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| Legends of Aeneas | |
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| Legends of Early Rome | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| Theories of Myth Interpretation | |
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| List of Perspectives | |
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| The "Myth" of Atlantis | |
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| The Brothers Grimm | |
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| Goya's Saturn Devouring His Children | |
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| The Biblical Creation Story | |
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| Prometheus and the Romantics | |
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| Plato's Aristophanes on Love and Human Origins | |
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| The Loves of Zeus | |
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| The Three Graces | |
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| Bernini's Apollo and Daphne | |
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| Pan and Pastoral Tradition | |
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| Venus: Images of Beauty | |
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| Rossetti's Proserpina Holding the Pomegranate | |
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| H.D.'s "Adonis" | |
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| Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne | |
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| Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy | |
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| Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus | |
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| Michelangelo's The Sibyl of Cumae | |
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| Dante's Inferno | |
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| Mythical Motifs in George Lucas's Star Wars | |
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| J.R.R. Tolkien's Hero in The Lord of the Rings | |
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| Vasari's Perseus and Andromeda | |
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| Classical Myth and the Stars | |
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| Daumier's Hercules in the Augean Stables | |
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| Carracci's Hercules at the Crossroads | |
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| Boccaccio's Misfortunes of Famous Men | |
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| Picasso's Minotauromachia | |
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| Brueghel's The Fall of Icarus | |
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| Gustave Moreau's Oedipus and the Sphinx | |
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| Seneca's Medea | |
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| Delacroix's Medee | |
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| Yeats' "Leda and the Swan" | |
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| The Beauty of Helen | |
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| Seamus Heaney's Suicide of Ajax | |
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| The Trojan War in European Art | |
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| Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida | |
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| Ulysses | |
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| The Legends of Odysseus | |
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| Cavafy's "Ithaca" | |
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| Aeneas, Augustus, and Mussolini | |
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| David's Oath of the Horatii | |
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| The Lucretia of Rembrandt and Shakespeare | |
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| Apuleius' Allegory of Cupid and Psyche | |
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| Maps | |
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| The Ancient Mediterranean (inside front cover) | |
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| Southern and Central Greece | |
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| The Ancient Near East | |
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| Ancient Italy | |
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| Imperial Rome | |
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| Greece, the Aegean, and Western Asia Minor | |