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Classical Mythology: Images and Insights, 4/e

Stephen Harris, California State University, Sacramento
Gloria Platzner, California State University, Sacramento

ISBN: 0072818492
Copyright year: 2003

Preface

Part I. The Nature And Function Of Myth
1. Introduction to Greek Myth
2. Ways of Interpreting Myth

Part II. Epic Myths And The Heroic Quest
3. In the Beginning: Hesiod's Creation Story
4. The World in Decline: The Alienation of the Human and Divine
5. The Great Goddess and the Goddesses: The Divine Woman in Greek Mythology
6. The Olympian Family of Zeus
7. In Touch with the Gods: Apollo's Oracle at Delphi
8. Dionysus: Rooted in Earth and Ecstasy
9. The Land of No Return: The Gloomy Kingdom of Hades
10. Heroes of Myth
11. Heroines of Myth
12. Heroes at War: The Troy Saga
13. A Different Kind of Hero: The Quest of Odysseus

Part III. Tragic Heroes And Heroines
14. The Theater of Dionysus and the Tragic Vision
15. The House of Atreus: Aeschylus' Oresteia
16. The Tragic House of Laius: Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle
17. Euripides' Medea and Bacchae: A Different Perspective on Tragedy

Part IV. The World Of Roman Myth
18. The Roman Vision: Greek Myths and Roman Realities
19. The Aeneid: Virgil's Roman Epic
20. Ovid's Metamorphosis: The Retelling of Greek Myth

Part V. The Western World's Transformation Of Myth
21. The Persistence of Myth

Glossary
Selected Bibliography

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