Preface | |
The Nature And Function Of Myth | |
Introduction to Greek Myth | |
Ways of Interpreting Myth | |
Epic Myths And The Heroic Quest | |
In the Beginning: Hesiod's Creation Story | |
Alienation of the Human and Divine: Prometheus, Fire, and Pandora | |
The Divine Woman in Greek Mythology | |
The Olympian Family of Zeus: Sharing Rule of the Universe | |
In Touch with the Gods: Apollo's Oracle at Delphi | |
Dionysus: Rooted in Earth and Ecstasy | |
The Land of No Return: The Gloomy Kingdom of Hades | |
Heroes of Myth: Man Divided Against Himself | |
Heroines of Myth: Women in Many Roles | |
Heroes at War: The Troy Saga | |
A Different Kind of Hero: The Quest of Odysseus | |
Tragic Heroes And Heroines | |
The Theater of Dionysus: Myth and the Tragic Vision | |
The House of Atreus: Aeschylus'Oresteia | |
The Tragic House of Laius: Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle | |
A Different Perspective on Tragedy: Euripides'Medeaand theBacchae | |
The World Of Roman Myth | |
The Roman Vision: Greek Myths and Roman Realities | |
Virgil's Roman Epic: TheAeneid | |
The Retelling of Greek Myths: Ovid'sMetamorphosis | |
The Western World's Transformation Of Myth | |
The Persistence of Myth | |
Glossary | |
Selected Bibliography | |
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