Classical Mythology

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 19 clear that citizenship depended upon the condition that both parents be ...

20 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS sense of the word today. The case is similar in the history of music; the very first opera wa ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 21 the divine right of gods and kings. Demeter and Persephone did not agree ...

22 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS the sexual act. The relationship was particularly sanctified by a social code if the primary ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 23 must look long and hard to read any subtext to the contrary. So is the I ...

24 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS terpretations naturally varies from reader to reader. About this conclusion, how- ever, we ar ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 25 art is self-conscious, literary, and aesthetic, nevertheless the myth is ...

26 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS uum. The creation of classical myth has never really stopped, but from the time of Homer it h ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 27 tant mythology. Thus substantial portions of these works appear in trans ...

28 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The mythographers were late compilers of handbooks of mythology. Of these, the work ascribed ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 29 The historian Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) recorded the foundation myths of Ro ...

30 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Sir George Young (1837-1930), for example, may be a bit more difficult for mod- ern readers t ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 31 Détienne, Marcel. The Creation of Mythology. Chicago: University of Chic ...

32 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Segal, Robert A. Joseph Campbell: An Introduction. New York: Meridian, 1997 [1987]. Strenski, ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 33 jor goddesses considered as types, with a bibliography of novels and pla ...

34 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS ICONOGRAPHY, RELIGION, AND FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS Dexter, Miriam Robbins. Whence the Goddes ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 35 Sometimes fable is also applied as a general term, but it is better to ...

36 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS unfortunately, Campbell does not pay enough attention to the Greeks and the Ro- mans. Jan Br ...

INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY 37 sometimes designated as the Ur-myth. It is difficult and often impossibl ...

38 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS pus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989 ...