Classical Mythology - Images and Insights by Stephen L. Harris
by Harris, Stephen; Platzner, GloriaEdition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-06-04
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary
Classical Mythology: Images and Insightsgrew out of the authors' many years of teaching Greek and Roman myth to undergraduates at California State University, Sacramento. Unique among textbooks on this topic, our book approaches the study of myth through complete works of Greco-Roman literature, including six complete Greek dramas and generous excerpts from the narratives of Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, and Ovid, and through carefully-chosen examples of Classical works of art, both painting and sculpture. Combining literary masterpieces with the visual arts, this integrative approach offers readers a comprehensive experience with both cognitive and aesthetic appeal.
Table of Contents
| 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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