The Oxford History Of The Classical World

instantaneously sprung into mature existence. And, unless it is maintained that all of Homer's rivals, earlier or contemporary, ...

so the entire flat land was dried up with Hephaestus burning ... Hephaestus and Achilles rejoice in the drying blast: on the oth ...

mountains-their constancy is conveyed by the traditional language. The sun rises each day in familiar terms; Achilles remains sw ...

surely be the same. The oral poetic tradition has created, by a long process of addition and rejection, an amalgam. In matters o ...

divine, they have laboured to produce theological consistency and system, the actual religion of an actual historical moment. He ...

Odyssey are the kind of works which I have argued for in this chapter then that is an important thing to know about some Greeks ...

Greek Myth And Hesiod (By Jasper Griffin) Myth Everyone is familiar with some Greek myths: that Oedipus solved the riddle of t ...

interesting than modern people, but who were not gods. The mythologies of Egypt and Mesopotamia are not much concerned with hero ...

in his own way, and the audience did not feel committed to accepting what he said, however fascinating, as necessarily true. Som ...

Myths in which women reject their ordinary feminine role are numerous. Their natural role, their telos, was marriage. Those who ...

have been before him who did it; of what is called human lineage, Polycrates was the first' (3. 122). Golden Mask From A Tomb At ...

picture of a society as a whole. As an example of the preservation in myth of an archaic custom, we can take the story of the ad ...

the events of that age very seriously, and also that the events are transparent, allowing the hearer to discern through them the ...

existence of the blessed gods: it defines by contrast the real lot of man. Two outstanding questions remain. The first is that o ...

Heracles Leads Cerberus to the terrified king Eurystheus, on a vase by a Caeretan painter-an immigrant Ionian working in Etruria ...

Floral Fantasy with ostrich-riders, wildlife, and a Triton on the neck of the vase, made by an immigrant Ionian in Etruria in ab ...

A structuralist analysis is given by M. Detienne. For him the myth is concerned with marriage, and with excess and mediation. Ad ...

Near Helicon he stopped, in a poor place, the best he could: In Ascra, bad in winter, worse in summer, never good. (Works and Da ...

where the sun goes down. Much of this, no doubt, is Hesiod's own invention. The purely mythological conception of genealogy has ...

Zeus Blitzes A Giant Or Titan. From the corner of the pediment of the Temple of Artemis on Corcyra (Corfu), early sixth century ...