Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, 1)

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Nilsson, Martin P. (1940). "The Religion of Eleusis". Greek Popular Religion. Columbia University Press. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 20 November 2006. We sat outside on a large covered area. It was very busy, but the service was fast and the food was good. North John A.; Beard Mary; Price Simon R.F. (1998). "The Religions of Imperial Rome". Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-31682-8. Mallory, J.P., and Douglas Q. Adams. 2006. Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. London: Oxford University Press. p. 440. Artemis: 'I never ever want to have a boyfriend or husband or have a man touch me, you know, in that way -'

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a b Guirand, Felix (1987) [1959]. "Greek Mythology". In Guirand, Felix (ed.). New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. Translated by R. Aldington and D. Ames. Hamlyn. ISBN 978-0-600-02350-0. Fry reimagines the Greek myths with wit, warmth and humanity, bringing them into the modern age. A welcome addition to any bookshelf * Book Bag *Kerenyi, Karl (1980) [1951]. The Gods of the Greeks (Reissueed.). Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-27048-6. Celebrating the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, Mythos breathes life into ancient tales—from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire. In another story, based on an old folktale-motif, [39] and echoing a similar theme, Demeter was searching for her daughter, Persephone, having taken the form of an old woman called Doso, and received a hospitable welcome from Celeus, the King of Eleusis in Attica. As a gift to Celeus, because of his hospitality, Demeter planned to make his son Demophon a god, but she was unable to complete the ritual because his mother Metanira walked in and saw her son in the fire and screamed in fright, which angered Demeter, who lamented that foolish mortals do not understand the concept and ritual. [40] Heroic age Dowden, Ken (1992). "Myth and Mythology". The Uses of Greek Mythology. Routledge (UK). ISBN 978-0-415-06135-3.

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a b c d e f Graf, Fritz. 2009 [1993]. Greek Mythology: An Introduction, translated by T. Marier. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801846571. Percy, William A. 1999. "The Institutionalization of Pederasty" in Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-252-06740-2.During the Hellenistic period, mythology took on the prestige of elite knowledge that marks its possessors as belonging to a certain class. At the same time, the skeptical turn of the Classical age became even more pronounced. [62] :89 Greek mythographer Euhemerus established the tradition of seeking an actual historical basis for mythical beings and events. [63] Although his original work ( Sacred Scriptures) is lost, much is known about it from what is recorded by Diodorus and Lactantius. [7] :7 In between the Argo and the Trojan War, there was a generation known chiefly for its horrific crimes. This includes the doings of Atreus and Thyestes at Argos. Behind the myth of the house of Atreus (one of the two principal heroic dynasties with the house of Labdacus) lies the problem of the devolution of power and of the mode of accession to sovereignty. The twins Atreus and Thyestes with their descendants played the leading role in the tragedy of the devolution of power in Mycenae. [53] Klatt J. Mary, Brazouski Antoinette (1994). "Preface". Children's Books on Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28973-6.

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The achievement of epic poetry was to create story-cycles and, as a result, to develop a new sense of mythological chronology. Thus Greek mythology unfolds as a phase in the development of the world and of humans. [19] :11 While self-contradictions in these stories make an absolute timeline impossible, an approximate chronology may be discerned. The resulting mythological "history of the world" may be divided into three or four broader periods: As for the food, it was exceptional!... Everything was perfectly cooked to perfection and the taste was absolutely amazing! Albala Ken G; Johnson Claudia Durst; Johnson Vernon E. (2000). "Origin of Mythology". Understanding the Odyssey. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-41107-1.

Hard, Robin (2003). "Sources of Greek Myth". The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: based on H. J. Rose's "A Handbook of Greek mythology". Routledge (UK). ISBN 978-0-415-18636-0. a b c d e f g Miles, Geoffrey (1999). "The Myth-kitty" in Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-415-14754-5. Bulfinch, Thomas (2003). "Greek Mythology and Homer". Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-30881-9.

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Woodward, Roger D., ed. (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84520-5. Historians Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, and geographers Pausanias and Strabo, who traveled throughout the Greek world and noted the stories they heard, supplied numerous local myths and legends, often giving little-known alternative versions. [9] :xii Herodotus in particular, searched the various traditions he encountered and found the historical or mythological roots in the confrontation between Greece and the East. [10] :60 [11] :22 Herodotus attempted to reconcile origins and the blending of differing cultural concepts. Straightway may I die, after doing vengeance upon the wrongdoer, that I may not stay here, jeered at beside the curved ships, a burden of the earth. The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes (epic poet, scholar, and director of the Library of Alexandria) tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the mythical land of Colchis. In the Argonautica, Jason is impelled on his quest by king Pelias, who receives a prophecy that a man with one sandal would be his nemesis. Jason loses a sandal in a river, arrives at the court of Pelias, and the epic is set in motion. Nearly every member of the next generation of heroes, as well as Heracles, went with Jason in the ship Argo to fetch the Golden Fleece. This generation also included Theseus, who went to Crete to slay the Minotaur; Atalanta, the female heroine, and Meleager, who once had an epic cycle of his own to rival the Iliad and Odyssey. Pindar, Apollonius and the Bibliotheca endeavor to give full lists of the Argonauts. [48] [49] [50]

Greek mythology has had an extensive influence on the culture, arts, and literature of Western civilization and remains part of Western heritage and language. Poets and artists from ancient times to the present have derived inspiration from Greek mythology and have discovered contemporary significance and relevance in the themes. [4] :43 Achilles and Penthesileia by Exekias, c. 540BC, British Museum, London Sources a b Rose, Herbert Jennings. 1991. A Handbook of Greek Mythology. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-04601-5. Epithemeus was resting next to happily beside her. The moonbeams danced in the yard. Unable to stand it any longer Pandora jumped from her matrimonial bed as well as was out in the garden, unfolding the base of the sundial and scrabbling at the planet, before she had time to tell herself that this was the incorrect thing to do. Algra, Keimpe (1999). "The Beginnings of Cosmology". The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44667-9.