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Myths of the Greeks and Romans

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.1995

Verlag

Penguin Adult Hc/Tr

Seitenzahl

498

Maße (L/B/H)

20,3/13,5/2,7 cm

Gewicht

562 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-452-01162-5

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

01.09.1995

Verlag

Penguin Adult Hc/Tr

Seitenzahl

498

Maße (L/B/H)

20,3/13,5/2,7 cm

Gewicht

562 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-452-01162-5

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Foreword

    Part I: The Heroes of Homer
    1. The Wrath of Achilles
    i. The Story Told in the Iliad
    ii. Troy and Homer
    iii. Achilles: Helen
    iv. The Qualities of a Hero
    v. The Hero and His Gods

    2. Odysseus
    i. The Story Told in the Odyssey
    ii. Odysseus
    iii. Ever-repeated Tales
    iv. Beyond the World's End

    Part II: Zeus, Apollo, Demeter
    3. The Rise of Zeus
    i. The Story Told in the Theogony
    ii. Myths of Creation
    iii. Zeus Was Not Always There
    iv. The Destruction of the Rebels

    4. Apollo and Demeter
    i. The Story Told in the Hymn to Apollo
    ii. The Brilliant God of Hellenism
    iii. The Story Told in the Hymn to Demeter
    iv. Mother Earth
    v. Myth and Ritual

    Part III: Agamemnon and Prometheus
    5. The House of Agamemnon
    i. The Story of the Oresteia Told by Aeschylus
    ii. Tragic Drama Chooses Myth
    iii. The God Who Exacts the Price
    iv. To O'Neill, Eliot and Sartre

    6. Prometheus
    i. The Story of the Prometheus Bound Told by Aeschylus
    ii. The Resistance Hero

    Part IV: Oedipus and Antigone
    7. Oedipus
    i. The Story of the King Oedipus Told by Sophocles
    ii. Why Is Oedipus Destroyed?
    iii. The Oedipus Complex
    iv. Oedipus at Colonus

    8. Antigone
    i. The Story of the Antigone Told by Sophocles
    ii. Who Is Right and Who Is Wrong?

    Part V: Heracles and Dionysus
    9. Heracles Who Conquers Death
    i. The Story of the Alcestis Told by Euripides
    ii. A New Look at the Myths
    iii. The Harrowing of Hell

    10. Dionysus Who Gives Ecstasy
    i. The Story of the Bacchae Told by Euripides
    ii. The Irresistable Irrational

    Part VI: Heroic Searchers
    11. The Quest for the Golden Fleece
    i. The Story of the Argonautica Told by Apollonius
    ii. Alexandrians and Victorians

    12. The Quest for a Lost Wife
    i. The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice Told by Virgil
    ii. The Holy Orphic Books
    iii. The Poetic Expression of Myth

    13. The Quest for a New Home
    i. The Story of the Aeneid Told by Virgil
    ii. Nationalism and Guilt
    iii. The Two Gates of Sleep

    14. The Quest for a Roman Past
    i. The Story of Romulus Told by Livy
    ii. Patriotic Foundation-myth
    iii. The Stories of Tarquin and Horatius Told by Livy
    iv. History in Legend

    Part VII: The Thousand Faces of Love
    15. Ovid
    i. Changes of Shape
    ii. Loves Sad and Heavy
    iii. Loves Triumphant
    iv. Pious Couples Rewarded

    16. The Invisible Lover
    i. The Story of Cupid and Psyche Told by Apuleius
    ii. Fairy-Story
    iii. Allegory?

    17. He Died for Love
    i. The Story of Hero and Leander Told by Musaeus
    ii. Autumnal Tint

    Maps
    Some Additional Myths
    Bibliography
    Chapter Notes