An Anthology of Classical Myth

This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks. In addition to the complete texts of "The Homeric Hymns" and Hesiod's "Theogony", this collection provides generous selections from over 50 texts composed between the Archaic Age and the fourth century AD. Ancient interpretation of myth is represented here in selections from the allegorists Heraclitus, Cornutus and Fulgentius, the rationalists Palaephatus and Diodorus of Sicily, and the philosophers and historians Plato, Herodotus and Thucydides. Appendices treat evidence from inscriptions, papyri and Linear B tablets and include a thematic index, a mythological dictionary, and genealogies. A thoughtful Introduction supports students working with the primary sources and the other resources offered here; an extensive note to instructors offers suggestions on how to incorporate this book into their courses.

ISBN 0872207226   Pages 517 ISBN13 9780872207226 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Hackett Publishing Co, Inc   Weight (grammes) 874 Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, Inc   Published in Cambridge, MA Format Hardback   Height (mm) 155 Publication date 01 Dec 2004   Width (mm) 230 Library of Congress PA3621.A58   Spine width (mm) 38 DEWEY 880.08   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Acusilaus, fragments		1
		Aelian, Historical miscellany, excerpts		2
		Aeschylus, fragments		5
		Andron, fragment		8
		Antoninus liberalis, Collection of metamorphoses, selections		9
		Apollodorus, Library, excerpts		17
		Archilochus, fragments		58
		Arrian, Anabasis, excerpt		59
		Babrius, Fables, selections		61
		Bacchylides, selections		63
		Bion, Lament for Adonis		73
		Callimachus, Hymns, selections		76
		Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus		84
		Conon, Stories, selections		86
		Cornutus, Compendium of the traditions of Greek theology, excerpts		89
		Critias, Sisyphos, fragment		92
		Diodorus of Sicily, Historical library, excerpts		94
		Eratosthenes, Constellation myths, selections		102
		Euripides, fragments		107
		Fulgentius, Myths, selections		111
		Hellanicus, fragments		114
		Heraclitus, Homeric problems, excerpts		116
		Herodorus, On Heracles, fragments		121
		Herodotus, Histories, excerpts		123
		Hesiod, excerpts		129
		Homeric hymns		168
		Horace, Odes, selections		211
		Hyginus, Stories, selections		216
		Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, excerpts		277
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"This book is a treasure-trove. It will be hugely useful to instructors teaching any level of mythology course. Not only does it provide, under one cover, good translations of the two complete books essential to every course (Theogony; Homeric Hymns), it also offers hundreds of pages of additional primary material... No other book in English offers such a wide range of well-translated and important sources..." Richard Martin, Stanford University. "I am astonished by the simplicity of the idea, and, at the same time, the complexity of the effort, that joined to produce this outstanding work... the organization is impeccable and the selection is provocative..." Monica Cyrino, University of New Mexico.

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