Classical Mythology : Images and Insights

by Harris, Stephen L.; Platzner, Gloria

• ISBN13: 9780072818499
• ISBN10: 0072818492
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-16
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Table of Contents

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 Theogony

4. Alienation of the Human and Divine: Prometheus, Fire, and Pandora

5. The Great Goddess and the Goddesses: The Divine Woman in Greek Mythology

6. The Olympian Family of Zeus: Sharing Rule of the Universe

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: Man Divided Against Himself

11. Heroines of Myth: Women in Many Roles

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: Myth and the Tragic Vision

15. The House of Atreus: Aeschylus' Oresteia

16. The Tragic House of Laius: Sophocles' Oedipus Cycle

17. A Different Perspective on Tragedy: Euripides' Medea and the Bacchae

PART IV. THE WORLD OF ROMAN MYTH

18. The Roman Vision: Greek Myths and Roman Realities

19. Virgil's Roman Epic: The Aeneid

20. The Retelling of Greek Myths: Ovid's Metamorphosis

PART V. THE WESTERN WORLD'S TRANSFORMATION OF MYTH

21. The Persistence of Myth

Glossary

Selected Bibliography