A Companion to Greek MythologyKen Dowden, Niall Livingstone A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.
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Contents
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Orphic Mythology | 73 |
Myth Performed Myth Believed | 107 |
The Visual Arts | 157 |
Platonic Myths | 179 |
Myth in History | 195 |
New Traditions | 209 |
Near Eastern Mythologies | 357 |
Interpretation | 411 |
Women and Myth | 443 |
Greek Myths | 459 |
Conspectus 525 | 527 |
Bibliography | 549 |
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