| Description |
398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Part 1 -- Introduction -- Myth and mythology -- The meaning of myth -- The Greek gods : the first generation of Olympians -- The Greek gods : the second generation of Olympians -- The hero -- The heroine -- The myth of the Trojan War -- Rome and its foundation myth -- Creation and flood myths from the near east -- Part 2 -- Greek texts -- Homer, 'Iliad', 'Odyssey' -- Scholia on the 'Iliad' -- Hesiod, 'Theogony, works and days' -- Homeric 'Hymns to Demeter' -- Hecataeus, 'Genealogies' -- Herodotus, 'Histories' -- Hellanicus of Lesbos -- Thucydides, 'History' -- Hippocrates, 'On airs, waters and places' -- Euripides, 'The Bacchae', 'Heracles', 'Alcestis' -- Plato, 'Protagoras' -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Apollodorus, The library, 'Epitome' -- Pausanias, 'Description of Greece' -- Plutarch, 'Life of Romulus', 'Life of Cimon' -- Proclus, 'Chrestomathy' -- Roman texts -- Sallust, 'Conspiracy of Catiline' -- Livy, 'Early history of Rome' -- Virgil, 'Aeneid' -- Ovid, 'Metamorphoses' -- Epitaphs from Rome -- Egyptian, near eastern and Biblical texts -- 'Book of the dead' -- 'Eridu genesis' -- 'Enuma Elish' -- Nur Aya, 'Epic of Atrahasis' -- Sin-leqe-unnini, 'Epic of Gilgamesh' -- Bible (extracts) -- Glossary of people and places -- Chronology of the ancient world |
| Summary |
Provides a complete introduction to this important field of study. It contains a selection of readings from ancient texts and a comprehensive glossary. Examines the key themes to the cultures in which the myths arose or in which they were adopted. Plant is at Macquarie Uni |
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Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mythology, Middle Eastern.
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Mythology, Asian.
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Mythology, Egyptian.
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Mythology, Greek.
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Mythology, Roman.
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| ISBN |
9781420256864 |
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