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Tables of Contents for A Short Introduction to Classical Myth
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
ix
Preface
x
PART I Definitions and Interpretation
What Is a Myth?
1
16
Myth in Homer and Hesiod
2
3
Muthos in Pindar
5
2
Muthos in Plato
7
5
Muthos in Aristotle
12
1
Modern Definitions
13
4
The Meaning of Myth I: Ancient and Premodern Theories
17
13
Greek Theories
17
2
Physical Allegory
19
2
Historical Allegory: Euhemerism
21
2
Moral Allegory
23
1
Medieval and Renaissance Theories
24
2
Theories of the Enlightenment
26
4
The Meaning of Myth II: Modern Theories
30
19
Romantic Theories
30
3
Anthropological Theories
33
2
Linguistic Theories
35
3
Psychological Theories
38
3
Structuralist Theories
41
2
Contextual Approaches
43
1
Conclusion
44
5
PART II Background
The Cultural Context of Greek Myth
49
18
Greek Geography
49
2
Greek History
51
9
Greek Society
60
4
Greece and Rome
64
3
The Development of Classical Myth
67
16
Roots of Muthoi in the Bronze Age and the Ancient Near East
67
2
The Singers of Muthoi
69
3
Muthoi in the Greek Archaic Period
72
3
Muthoi in the Greek Classical Period
75
3
Myth in the Hellenistic Period
78
2
The Roman Appropriation of Greek Myth
80
3
PART III Themes
Myth and Creation: Hesiod's Theogony and Its Near Eastern Sources
83
14
Divine Myth
84
2
Hesiod's Theogony
86
1
The Triumph of Marduk
87
4
The Hittite Kingship in Heaven and the Song of Ullikummi
91
2
The Divine Myth of Succession in Hesiod and the Near East
93
4
Greek Myth and Greek Religion: Persephone, Orpheus, and Dionysus
97
15
Religion: General
98
1
Some Religious Emblems Drawn into Myth
99
2
Demeter and Persephone
101
2
The Eleusinian Mysteries
103
2
The Myth and Cult of Dionysus
105
2
The Myth and Religion of Orpheus
107
5
Myth and the Hero: The Legends of Heracles and Gilgamesh
112
14
Heroes and Heroines
112
2
Heracles, Son of Zeus
114
3
The Mesopotamian Hero Gilgamesh
117
6
The Way of the Hero
123
3
Myth and History: Crete and the Legend of the Trojan War
126
16
Herodotus, Father of History
126
5
Myth and Histoy in Thucydides
131
3
Heinrich Schliemann and Troy
134
2
Archaeology and Cretan Myth
136
6
Myth and Folktale: The Legend of Odysseus' Return
142
14
Folktale
142
2
The Folktale of Potiphar's Wife
144
2
The Greek Hero Perseus and Folktale
146
1
Odysseus and Folktale
147
4
The Folktale of the man who Returned
151
5
Myth and Society: The Legend of the Amazons
156
12
Amazons: The Women who Hated Men
156
9
The Meaning of the Amazons
165
3
Myth and Law: The Legend of Orestes
168
12
A House of Horrors: The Mythical Background to the Oresteia
169
4
Aeschylus' Agamenon
173
2
Aeschylus' Libation Bearers
175
1
Aeschylus' Eumenides
176
1
The Oresteia: A Parable of Progress
177
3
Roman Myth and Roman Religion: The Metamorphoses of Ovid
180
13
Roman Religion and Roman Myth-Makers
181
3
Ovid's Metamorphoses
184
9
Myth and Politics: The Myth of Theseus and the Aeneid of Vergil
193
11
Theseus of Athens
193
3
Roman Gods of the Family and State
196
1
The Aeneid: An Epic of National Rebirth
197
7
Myth And Art
204
15
Greek Myths From Eastern Art
204
10
The Greek Invention of Mythic Illustration
214
5
Index
219
11
Chart: The Greek and Roman Pantheon
230