Michael Grant

Myths Of The Greeks And Romans (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Myths of the Greeks and Romans is an essential guide to ancient literature

The myths told by the Greeks and Romans are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing and visual art. Mythology was inextricably interwoven with the entire fabric of their public and private lives.

This book discusses not only the purely fictional myths, fairy-tales and folk-tales but the sagas and legends which have some historical grounding. This is not a dictionary of stories, rather a personal selection of the most important and memorable. Michael Grant re-tells these marvellous tales, and then explores the different ways in which they have appeared throughout literature.

It is an inspiring study, filled with quotations from literary sources, which gives the reader a fascinating exposition of ancient culture as well as an understanding of how vital the classical world has been in shaping the western culture of today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780222790
• Artikelnr.: 39272898

Autorenporträt

Michael Grant (1914-2004) was a highly successful and renowned historian of the ancient world. He held many academic posts including those of Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University; Vice Chancellor of The Queen's University, Belfast and Vice Chancellor of the University of Khartoum. He was a Doctor of Letters at Dublin and a Doctor of Laws at Belfast. He has also been President of the Classical Association of England, the Virgil Society and the Royal Numismatic Society, and was a Medallist of the American Numismatic Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Part I: The Heroes of Homer
1. The Wrath of Achilles
i. The Story Told in the Iliad
ii. Troy and Homer
iii. Achilles: Helen
iv. The Qualities of a Hero
v. The Hero and His Gods
2. Odysseus
i. The Story Told in the Odyssey
ii. Odysseus
iii. Ever-repeated Tales
iv. Beyond the World's End
Part II: Zeus, Apollo, Demeter
3. The Rise of Zeus
i. The Story Told in the Theogony
ii. Myths of Creation
iii. Zeus Was Not Always There
iv. The Destruction of the Rebels
4. Apollo and Demeter
i. The Story Told in the Hymn to Apollo
ii. The Brilliant God of Hellenism
iii. The Story Told in the Hymn to Demeter
iv. Mother Earth
v. Myth and Ritual
Part III: Agamemnon and Prometheus
5. The House of Agamemnon
i. The Story of the Oresteia Told by Aeschylus
ii. Tragic Drama Chooses Myth
iii. The God Who Exacts the Price
iv. To O'Neill, Eliot and Sartre
6. Prometheus
i. The Story of the Prometheus Bound Told by Aeschylus
ii. The Resistance Hero
Part IV: Oedipus and Antigone
7. Oedipus
i. The Story of the King Oedipus Told by Sophocles
ii. Why Is Oedipus Destroyed?
iii. The Oedipus Complex
iv. Oedipus at Colonus
8. Antigone
i. The Story of the Antigone Told by Sophocles
ii. Who Is Right and Who Is Wrong?
Part V: Heracles and Dionysus
9. Heracles Who Conquers Death
i. The Story of the Alcestis Told by Euripides
ii. A New Look at the Myths
iii. The Harrowing of Hell
10. Dionysus Who Gives Ecstasy
i. The Story of the Bacchae Told by Euripides
ii. The Irresistable Irrational
Part VI: Heroic Searchers
11. The Quest for the Golden Fleece
i. The Story of the Argonautica Told by Apollonius
ii. Alexandrians and Victorians
12. The Quest for a Lost Wife
i. The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice Told by Virgil
ii. The Holy Orphic Books
iii. The Poetic Expression of Myth
13. The Quest for a New Home
i. The Story of the Aeneid Told by Virgil
ii. Nationalism and Guilt
iii. The Two Gates of Sleep
14. The Quest for a Roman Past
i. The Story of Romulus Told by Livy
ii. Patriotic Foundation-myth
iii. The Stories of Tarquin and Horatius Told by Livy
iv. History in Legend
Part VII: The Thousand Faces of Love
15. Ovid
i. Changes of Shape
ii. Loves Sad and Heavy
iii. Loves Triumphant
iv. Pious Couples Rewarded
16. The Invisible Lover
i. The Story of Cupid and Psyche Told by Apuleius
ii. Fairy-Story
iii. Allegory?
17. He Died for Love
i. The Story of Hero and Leander Told by Musaeus
ii. Autumnal Tint
Maps
Some Additional Myths
Bibliography
Chapter Notes