Classical Mythology

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PART ONE The Myths of Creation THE GODS ...

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CHAPTER 1 INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY The impossibility of establishing a satisfactory definition of my ...

4 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS ever fanciful and imaginative, it has its roots in historical fact.^4 These two cate- gories u ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 5 elusive, as some so emphatically insist. A story embodying eternal values ...

6 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS historical time. This is the nature of true myths, which are fundamentally para- digms and exp ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 7 the allegorical approach is a barren exercise in cryptology: to explain t ...

8 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS less than a wish-fulfillment—the fulfillment of the wish of our childhood. But we, more fortun ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 9 Atreus, both of which deal with some of the most persistent, if repressed ...

10 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS evidence for their undeniable importance. Classical scholars in the English- speaking world h ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 11 MYTH AND SOCIETY Myth and Ritual: J. G. Frazer, Jane Harrison, and Rober ...

12 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS or belief. Clearly such a theory will be valid only for certain myths (e.g., those involving ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 13 pie, has been widely criticized. Yet whatever one's judgment may be, the ...

14 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS appear in the myths, no matter what names are given to the characters who per- form them. Myt ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 15 Burkert therefore believes that the structure of traditional tales canno ...

16 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS upon stories told by preliterate and primitive societies, and too often the devel- oped liter ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 17 layers in the development of Greek and Roman myths before their crystall ...

18 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS by Mary McCarthy as The Iliad, or the Poem of Force), focusing on the issues of violence, pow ...