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An edition of A brief guide to the Greek myths (2007)

A brief guide to the Greek myths

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A uniquely authoritative yet lightly handled examination of the key tales in the corpus of Greek mythology.

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Robinson
Language
English
Pages
531

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Subjects

Greek Mythology, Mythologie, Mythology, greek

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Griechenland (Altertum)

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Table of Contents

Sect. 1.
Myths and mythology -- -- Sect. 2.
From the primal void to a lost continent : the main Greek myths -- -- 1.
From chaos and castration to order : the birth of the gods -- -- 2.
Apollo and Artemis : music, love and hunting -- -- 3.
The creation of man and woman; the great flood; transgressors and heroines -- -- 4.
Jason and the Argonauts; Medeia -- -- 5.
Argos and the monster-slayers -- -- 6.
Herakles : the greatest of the heroes -- -- 7.
Thebes and Oidipous -- -- 8.
From Atlas to Hektor -- -- 9.
From Asopos to Akhilleus -- -- 10.
Athens : the early kings -- -- 11.
Theseus and the Minotaur -- -- 12.
Curses and cannibalism : the house of Pelops -- -- 13.
The Trojan War -- -- 14.
Homer's Iliad : the wrath of Akhilleus -- -- 15.
The wooden horse and the sack of Troy -- -- 16.
The returns of the heroes -- -- 17.
The Odyssey and its sequels -- -- 18.
Plato and the myth of Atlantis -- -- Sect. 3.
Some approaches to Greek mythology.

Edition Notes

Subtitle on cover: Gods, monsters, heroes and the origins of storytelling.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-518) and index.

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Series
Brief guide series, Brief guide series

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Dewey Decimal Class
398.20938, 292.13
Library of Congress
BL783 .K47 2007, BL783

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 531 pages
Number of pages
531

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OL32082338M
Internet Archive
briefguidetogree0000kers
ISBN 10
1845295129
ISBN 13
9781845295127
OCLC/WorldCat
163337650
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