Classical Mythology

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 ...

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 ...