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List of figures | |
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Preface | |
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Definitions and Interpretation | |
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What Is a Myth? | |
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Myth in Homer and Hesiod | |
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Muthos in Pindar | |
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Muthos in Plato | |
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Muthos in Aristotle | |
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Modern Definitions | |
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The Meaning of Myth I: Ancient and Premodern Theories | |
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Greek Theories | |
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Physical Allegory | |
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Historical Allegory: Euhemerism | |
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Moral Allegory | |
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Medieval and Renaissance Theories | |
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Theories of the Enlightenment | |
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The Meaning of Myth II: Modern Theories | |
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Romantic Theories | |
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Anthropological Theories | |
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Linguistic Theories | |
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Psychological Theories | |
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Structuralist Theories | |
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Contextual Approaches | |
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Conclusion | |
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Background | |
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The Cultural Context of Greek Myth | |
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Greek Geography | |
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Greek History | |
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Greek Society | |
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Greece and Rome | |
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The Development of Classical Myth | |
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Roots of Muthoi in the Bronze Age and the Ancient Near East | |
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The Singers of Muthoi | |
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Muthoi in the Greek Archaic Period | |
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Muthoi in the Greek Classical Period | |
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Myth in the Hellenistic Period | |
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The Roman Appropriation of Greek Myth | |
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Themes | |
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Myth and Creation: Hesiod's Theogony and Its Near Eastern Sources | |
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Divine Myth | |
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Hesiod's Theogony | |
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The Triumph of Marduk | |
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The Hittite Kingship in Heaven and the Song of Ullikummi | |
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The Divine Myth of Succession in Hesiod and the Near East | |
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Greek Myth and Greek Religion: Persephone, Orpheus, and Dionysus | |
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Religion: General | |
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Some Religious Emblems Drawn into Myth | |
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Demeter and Persephone | |
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The Eleusinian Mysteries | |
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The Myth and Cult of Dionysus | |
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The Myth and Religion of Orpheus | |
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Myth and the Hero: The Legends of Heracles and Gilgamesh | |
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Heroes and Heroines | |
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Heracles, son of Zeus | |
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The Mesopotamian Hero Gilgamesh | |
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The Way of the Hero | |
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Myth and History: Crete and the Legend of the Trojan War | |
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Herodotus, Father of History | |
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Myth and History in Thucydides | |
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Heinrich Schliemann and Troy | |
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Archaeology and Cretan Myth | |
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Myth and Folktale: The Legend of Odysseus' Return | |
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Folktale | |
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The Folktale of Potiphar's Wife | |
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The Greek Hero Perseus and Folktale | |
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Odysseus and Folktale | |
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The Folktale of the Man Who Returned | |
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Myth and Society: The Legend of the Amazons | |
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Amazons: the Women Who Hated Men | |
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The Meaning of the Amazons | |
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Myth and Law: The Legend of Orestes | |
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A House of Horrors: The Mythical Background to The Oresteia | |
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Aeschylus' Agamemnon | |
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Aeschylus' Libation Bearers | |
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Aeschylus' Eumenides | |
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The Oresteia: A Parable of Progress | |
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Roman Myth and Roman Religion: The Metamorphoses of Ovid | |
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Roman Religion and Roman Myth-Makers | |
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Ovid's Metamorphoses | |
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Myth and Politics: The Myth of Theseus and the Aeneid of Vergil | |
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Theseus of Athens | |
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Roman Gods of the Family and State | |
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The Aeneid: An Epic of National Rebirth | |
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Myth And Art | |
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Greek Myths from Eastern Art | |
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The Greek Invention of Mythic Illustration | |
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Index | |
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Chart: The Greek and Roman Pantheon | |