The Oxford History Of The Classical World

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 ...

Zeus Blitzes A Monster. This vase, made in a Chalcidian colony in South Italy in about 550-525 B.C., shows Zeus attacking with t ...

upon a time the clever Prometheus (a god, not a man: but his actions involve men for ever) tricked Zeus by cunning division of a ...

Bronze Warrior Fighting A Centaur, Both Helmeted. Geometric style of the later eighth century B.C. The centaur need not be the c ...

Relief Vase From Boeotia, of a type made both in Boeotia and the Greek islands in the mid seventh century, Perseus beheads the g ...

The Decoration Of A Handle Of The Francois Vase, a large Athenian mixing-bowl (crater), 66 cm high, found in Etruria at Chmsi. I ...

healthy spirit of competitiveness, which makes men work. For brother Perses has been behaving badly, demanding more than his sha ...

The Calydonian Boar Hunt on the neck of the Francois Vase (see illustration on p. 94). An epic occasion introducing many importa ...

And as I choose I'll let you go, or have you for my meat.' (205 ff.) Having reached this point, Hesiod tells his brother 'Don't ...

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