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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, His Wife Hera, and His Brothers | |
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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 and its Aftermath | |
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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 InterpretationList of Perspectives | |
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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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The Loves of Zeusin European Art | |
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The Three Graces | |
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Bernini's Apollo and Daphn+� | |
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Pan and Pastoral Tradition | |
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Venus: Images of Beautyin European Art | |
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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 Ariadn+� | |
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Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy | |
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Michelangelo's The Sibyl of Cumae | |
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Dante's Inferno | |
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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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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 M+�d+�e | |
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Yeats' "Leda and the Swan" | |
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The Beauty of Helen | |
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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 in European Art | |
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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 Psych+�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 (inside back cover) | |