- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 393 p.) : ill.
- Summary
- "The birth of Aphrodite, the Trojan Horse, Zeus disguised as a swan. These and other classical myths and legends are usually encountered separately, but together they make up a coherent, multigenerational saga of epic battles, bizarre metamorphoses, immortal heroes, and all-too-human gods - a fantastic world recognizably real to its audience." "Classical Mythology offers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths, beginning by exploring the landscapes where the myths are set. It then provides a detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the origin of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age - plus an illustrated mythological dictionary listing significant characters, places, events, objects, and concepts." "Whether you wish to explore the world that gave rise to ancient mythology or research a specific piece of the whole, this handbook is the best introduction available to an extra-ordinary cast of characters (gods, nymphs, satyrs, monsters, heroes) and the natural and supernatural stages upon which their fates are played out."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Handbook of classical mythology (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Handbook of classical mythology (Online)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Note
- Originally published: Handbook of classical mythology. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO, c2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-361) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Time : what happens in classical mythology -- Dieties, themes, and concepts -- Annotated print and nonprint resources.
- INTRODUCTION -- Basic concepts -- How classical mythology came into being -- A mix of traditions -- The archaic period -- The classical period -- The Hellenistic and imperial periods -- Interpretatio romana -- Classical mythology after antiquity -- How do we know about classical mythology today? -- The mythological world: places -- Earth -- Sky -- Death realm -- Tartaros -- Physical model versus biological model -- The mythological world: characters -- The principal gods -- The nature of gods and humans -- Nature spirits -- The relationship of gods and humans -- Peculiarities of mythological narrative -- Supernaturalism -- Personification and reification -- Binatural beings versus composite beings -- Reversible and irreversible changes.
- TIME: WHAT HAPPENS IN CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY -- Divine time and human time -- What happens in classical mythology -- From chaos to cosmos -- Two cosmic families -- The cosmic house -- The succession of world rulers -- The first humans -- The division of meat -- The theft of fire -- The loss of paradise -- The great deluge -- The origin of nations -- The gods establish their cults -- The mating of gods and humans -- The heroic age -- A family of the heroic age: the Pelopids -- Antecedents to the Trojan war -- The returns -- The end of the heroic age -- What does classical mythology say? -- The nature of the physical world -- The nature of the gods -- The nature of humans -- The heroes or demigods -- Behavior options.
- DIETIES, THEMES AND CONCEPTS -- Absent deity -- Adamant -- Aeolus (Greek Aiolos) -- Aetiology (also Etiology) -- Aineias (Latinized form Aeneas -- Aloads (Greek Aloadai or Aloeidai) -- Ambrosia -- Anthropogony -- Aphrodite (Roman Venus) -- Apollon (Latinized form Apollo) -- Ares (Roman Mars) Argonauts (Greek Argonautai) -- Artemis (Roman Diana) -- Asklepios (Latinized form Aesculapius) Athena (also Athene and Athenaia) (Roman Minerva) -- Atlas -- Bellerophon (also Bellerophontes) -- Biographical pattern -- Catasterism (Greek Katasterismos) -- Centaurs and Hippocentaurs (Greek Kentauroi and Hippokentauroi) -- Charon -- Combat myth and legend -- Cosmogony (Greek Kyklopes) -- Demeter (Roman Ceres) -- Dionysos (Roman Bacchus and Liber Pater) -- Divine guilds -- Eileithyia -- Elysion Field (Latinized form Erebus) -- Fabulous peoples and places -- Flood myth and legend -- Folk etymology -- Genealogy -- Giants (Greek Gigantes) -- Hades (also Aidoneus) (Roman Dis and Orcus) -- Hephaistos (Roman Vulcan) -- Hera (Roman Juno) -- Herakles (Latinized form Hercules) -- Hermes (Roman Mercury) -- Hero (Greek Heros) -- Hestia (also Histia) (Roman Vesta) -- Honor (Greek Time) -- Hubris -- Hunters -- Ichor -- Iris -- Jason (Greek Iason) -- Kadmos (Latinized form Cadmus) -- Ker (or Keres) -- Kouretes (Latinized form Curetes) -- Kronos (Roman Saturn) -- Labyrinth (Greek Labyrinthos) -- Luminaries -- Maenads (Greek Mainades) -- Meleager (Greek Meleagros) -- Midas.
- Monsters -- Mountains -- Myth of the ages -- Nectar (Greek Nektar) -- Nymphs (Greek Nymphai) -- Odysseus -- Oedipus (Greek Oidipous) -- Olympians (Greek Olympioi) -- Oracles -- Orpheus -- Pan -- Pandora -- Persephone (Latinized form Proserpina; also Kore) -- Perseus -- Personified abstractions -- Poseidon (Roman Neptune) -- Promotion and demotion -- Romantic narratives -- Satyrs (Greek Satyroi) and Silens (Greek Silenoi) -- Seers -- Sex changers -- Sexual myths and legends -- Special rules and properties -- Succession myth -- Tartaros (Latinized form Tartarus) -- Tasks -- Theban wars Theseus -- Titans (Greek Titanes) -- Transformation -- Translation -- Triads -- Trickster -- Trojan war -- Waters -- Winds -- Wondrous animals -- Wondrous objects -- Zeus (Roman Jupiter, also Jove) -- ANNOTATED PRINT AND NONPRINT RESOURCES -- Print resources -- Ancient sources -- Reference works -- Classical mythology and the arts -- Surveys and studies an particular subjects -- Nonprint resources.
- ISBN
- 0195300351 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780195300352 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005007760
- OCLC
- ssj0002986628
- Author
Hansen, William F., 1941-
- Title
Classical mythology [electronic resource] : a guide to the mythical world of the Greeks and Romans / William Hansen.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-361) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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