Classical myth / 5th ed.

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作   者:Barry B. Powell ; with translations by Herbert M. Howe.

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ISBN:9780131962941

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Comprehensive and scholarly, this well-designed and class-tested text presents Greek and Roman myths in a lively and easy-to-read manner. It features fresh translations, numerous illustrations (ancient and modern) of classical myths and legends, and commentary that emphasizes the anthropological, historical, religious, sociological, and economic contexts in which the myths were told.This book covers myths of creation, myths of fertility, myths of the Olympians, Heracles, Oedipus, Trojan War, Roman Myth, Odysseus, and more. It also introduces students to classic literary works by Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Ovid.For anyone interested in learning more about the creation and modern interpretation of classical myths.

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Preface p. xi
Definitions and Background
The Nature of Myth p. 1
The Cultural Context of Classical Myth p. 18
The Development of Classical Myth p. 52
Divine Myth
Myths of Creation: The Rise of Zeus p. 78
Myths of Creation: The Origins of Mortals p. 112
Myths of the Olympians: Zeus and Hera p. 141
Myths of the Olympians: The Male Deities p. 159
Myths of the Olympians: The Female Deities p. 203
Myths of Fertility: Demeter p. 228
Myths of Fertility: Dionysus p. 263
Myths of Death: Encounters with the Underworld p. 297
Legends
Introduction to Heroic Myth p. 329
Perseus and Myths of the Argive Plain p. 346
Heracles p. 369
Theseus and the Myths of Athens p. 408
The Myths of Crete p. 441
Oedipus and the Myths of Thebes p. 467
Jason and the Myths of Iolcus and Calydon p. 494
The Trojan War p. 530
The Fall of Troy p. 566
The Return of Odysseus p. 593
Roman Myth
Legends of Aeneas p. 622
Legends of Early Rome p. 649
Interpretation
Theories of Myth Interpretation p. 674
List of Perspectives
The "Myth" of Atlantis p. 4
The Brothers Grimm p. 10
Goya's Saturn Devouring His Children p. 91
The Biblical Creation Story p. 108
Prometheus and the Romantics p. 119
Plato's Aristophanes on Love and Human Origins p. 136
The Loves of Zeus
The Three Graces p. 150
Bernini's Apollo and Daphne p. 175
Pan and Pastoral Tradition p. 200
Venus: Images of Beauty
Rossetti's Proserpina Holding the Pomegranate p. 238
H.D.'s "Adonis" p. 259
Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne p. 268
Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy p. 292
Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus p. 313
Michelangelo's The Sibyl of Cumae p. 319
Dante's Inferno p. 323
Mythical Motifs in George Lucas's Star Wars p. 336
J.R.R. Tolkien's Hero in The Lord of the Rings p. 341
Vasari's Perseus and Andromeda p. 360
Classical Myth and the Stars p. 363
Daumier's Hercules in the Augean Stables p. 384
Carracci's Hercules at the Crossroads p. 398
Boccaccio's Misfortunes of Famous Men p. 433
Picasso's Minotauromachia p. 453
Brueghel's The Fall of Icarus p. 457
Gustave Moreau's Oedipus and the Sphinx p. 477
Seneca's Medea p. 519
Delacroix's Medee p. 522
Yeats' "Leda and the Swan" p. 537
The Beauty of Helen p. 549
Seamus Heaney's Suicide of Ajax p. 569
The Trojan War in European Art
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida p. 584
Ulysses p. 594
The Legends of Odysseus
Cavafy's "Ithaca" p. 614
Aeneas, Augustus, and Mussolini p. 643
David's Oath of the Horatii p. 657
The Lucretia of Rembrandt and Shakespeare p. 661
Apuleius' Allegory of Cupid and Psyche p. 679
Maps
The Ancient Mediterranean (inside front cover)
Southern and Central Greece p. 20
The Ancient Near East p. 59
Ancient Italy p. 626
Imperial Rome p. 669
Greece, the Aegean, and Western Asia Minor

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