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Introduction : myths in context | 6 | |
Chronology of Greek myth-telling | 8 | |
I | Contexts, sources, meanings | |
General characteristics of Greek myths | 16 | |
Sources of evidence | 22 | |
Contexts for myth-telling | 28 | |
II | Myths of origin | |
Cosmogony | 44 | |
Origins of humanity | 54 | |
Local origins | 60 | |
Bringers of culture | 62 | |
Colonies | 64 | |
III | The olympians : power, honour, sexuality | |
Powers and spheres of influence | 68 | |
Honour and boundaries | 88 | |
Divine sexuality | 94 | |
IV | Heroic exploits | |
Perseus | 104 | |
Meleager, Atalanta and the Kalydonian Boar | 106 | |
Jason, the Argonauts and Medea | 108 | |
Herakles | 114 | |
Theseus and the heroic Athenian past | 124 | |
The Trojan war | 130 | |
V | Family sagas | |
A house of Pelops | 148 | |
Tereus, Prokne and Philomela | 154 | |
Antiope and her sons | 156 | |
Danaos and his kin | 158 | |
Proitos, Sthenebora and Bellerophon | 160 | |
The house of Laios | 162 | |
Strong bonds : love between spouses | 170 | |
Same-sex eroticism | 174 | |
VI | A landscape of myths | |
Mountains | 180 | |
Caves | 184 | |
Rivers and springs | 188 | |
The sea | 192 | |
Crete | 194 | |
Troy | 200 | |
The underworld | 206 | |
VII | Greek myths after the Greeks | |
How Rome re-imagined Greece | 216 | |
The middle ages | 226 | |
From the renaissance to the 20th century | 230 | |
Present and future | 244 | |
Further reading | 246 | |
Sources of quotations | 250 | |
Illustration credits | 251 | |
Acknowledgments | 252 | |
Index | 253 |
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