Complete World of Greek Mythology

Name: Complete World of Greek Mythology
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ISBN: 9780500251218

ISBN-10: 0500251215

ISBN-13: 9780500251218

Edition: 2004

Authors: Richard Buxton

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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 6/28/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 7.95" wide x 10.24" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English



Introduction : myths in context


Chronology of Greek myth-telling



Contexts, sources, meanings


General characteristics of Greek myths


Sources of evidence


Contexts for myth-telling



Myths of origin


Cosmogony


Origins of humanity


Local origins


Bringers of culture


Colonies



The olympians : power, honour, sexuality


Powers and spheres of influence


Honour and boundaries


Divine sexuality



Heroic exploits


Perseus


Meleager, Atalanta and the Kalydonian Boar


Jason, the Argonauts and Medea


Herakles


Theseus and the heroic Athenian past


The Trojan war



Family sagas


A house of Pelops


Tereus, Prokne and Philomela


Antiope and her sons


Danaos and his kin


Proitos, Sthenebora and Bellerophon


The house of Laios


Strong bonds : love between spouses


Same-sex eroticism



A landscape of myths


Mountains


Caves


Rivers and springs


The sea


Crete


Troy


The underworld



Greek myths after the Greeks


How Rome re-imagined Greece


The middle ages


From the renaissance to the 20th century


Present and future


Further reading


Sources of quotations


Illustration credits


Acknowledgments


Index