Classical Mythology

CHAPTER 2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY As we have already seen, the historical dimension is a prominent feature of G ...

40 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS THE BRONZE AGE The Stone Age gave way to the Bronze Age in Greece, Crete, and the Islands wit ...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY 41 the importance of the bull in ritual, the dominant role of a snake goddess, and the ...

42 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS nificance, perhaps the emblem of the royal family. A circle of shaft graves within the citade ...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY 43 study is the finding of the names of familiar deities of classical Greece: Zeus and ...

44 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS (Troia or Ilios, ca. 1700-1250 B.c., Middle-Late Bronze Age) was identified by Dôrpfeld as th ...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY 45 ditch. "The outer defense system consisted of an over-ten-foot-wide rock-cut ditch w ...

46 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS which are unmistakably Mycenaean and of the thirteenth century (the period of late Troy VI or ...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY 47 lands (e.g., Chios) off the coast. In the cities of this area in this period, we fin ...

48 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Press, 1970-1975. The standard work of reference in English, with chapters by vari- ous autho ...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY 49 Robert Payne, The Gold of Troy (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1959); Lynn and Gray Po ...

50 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Translated from the Russian by Christina Sever and Mila Bonnichsen (New York: Harry N. Abrams ...

CHAPTER 3 MYTHS OF CREATION There were many myths about creation among the Greeks and Romans, and these myths have many parallel ...

52 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS the blessed gods who exist forever, but always to sing of them themselves, the Muses, both fi ...

MYTHS OF CREATION 53 Another myth of creation is found in Birds, a comedy by the playwright Aristophanes (fifth century B.c.). F ...

54 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS end product may be. Both the poetic and the real worlds of Hesiod and Ovid are poles apart. T ...

MYTHS OF CREATION 55 wonder to primitive agricultural peoples. The rain of Uranus might, for exam- ple, be imagined as his seed ...

56 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Oceanus m. Tethys Coeus m. Phoebe I I Leto m. Zeus Achelous Oceanids • I I Apollo Artemis Hyp ...

MYTHS OF CREATION 57 Selene, and Eos. Helius, like his father, is a sun-god. Duplication of divinities is common in the early sc ...

58 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS can,^13 of gold, silver, and jewels that reflect the brilliant light of the god. The chariot ...