Stephen Harris,
California State University, Sacramento Gloria Platzner,
California State University, Sacramento
ISBN: 0072818492 Copyright year: 2003
Feature Summary
More than 700 pages of primary selections, many of them complete works, include major hymns, epics, and plays of classical myth.
More than 200 photographs of classical works of art illustrate how the Greeks and Romans envisioned the gods.
The myths are presented in the general chronological order in which the literary works containing them were written, allowing readers to perceive the ways in which myths changed and developed over time, from the orally composed epics of Homer, through the poetic hymns praising individual Olympian gods, to the much later Athenian plays dramatizing the myths of tragic heroes and heroines of the fifth century B. C., to the still-later evolution of myth in the environment of imperial Rome, and myth's further development in modern American and European literature and art.
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