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The book of Greek & Roman folktales, legends, & myths /
Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh--these are just some of the colorful characters...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Griego Antiguo Latín |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Kinds of Ancient Story; The Present Book; Chapter 1: Kings and Princesses; 1. Cupid and Psyche; 2. The Treasury of Rhampsinitos; 3. The Pharaoh and the Courtesan; Chapter 2: Gods and Ghosts; Divine Epiphanies; 4. The Muses Appear to Hesiod; 5. The Muses Appear to Archilochos; 6. Thamyris Competes against the Muses; 7. Stesichoros's Palinode; 8. Asklepios Heals Pandaros; 9. Asklepios Reveals Secrets of the Gods; 10. Athena Saves the Lindians.
- 11. The Altar of the Vulture God12. A Fortune in Water; 13. The Rescue of Simonides; Lower Mythology; 14. Narcissus; 15. Rhoikos and the Nymph; 16. "The Great God Pan Is Dead!"; 17. Bogies; Shape-Changers; 18. The Werewolf; 19. The Empousa; Ghosts; 20. Philinnion; 21. The Last Princess at Troy; 22. The Grateful Dead Man; 23. Murder at the Inn; 24. Letter from the Middle of the Earth; 25. The Haunted House; 26. The Haunted Baths; 27. The Haunted Battlefield; 28. The Hero of Temesa; 29. Periander's Wife; Early Wonder-Workers; 30. Abaris the Hyperborean; 31. Aristeas of Prokonnesos.
- 32. Hermotimos of Klazomenai33. Epimenides of Crete; 34. Pherekydes of Syros; 35. Pythagoras; Transmigration of Souls; 36. Pythagoras Remembers an Earlier Life; 37. Pythagoras Discerns a Friend's Soul in a Dog; 38. Empedokles Recalls His Earlier Lives; 39. The Woman Who Remembers Too Much; Magicians and Witches; 40. Pases the Magician; 41. Attack by Star-Stroke; 42. A Woman Dies from Spells; 43. The Soul-Drawing Wand; 44. Apollonios Cures a Plague; 45. The Magician's Apprentice; 46. Evil Landladies; Divination and Seers; 47. The Language of Birds; 48. The Acquisition of the Sibylline Oracles.
- 49. What the Sibyl Wants50. Bacchus Forsakes Antony; 51. Cato Explains a Portent; 52. Cato on Soothsayers; Fate; 53. Polykrates's Ring; 54. "Zeus, Why Me?"; 55. The Last Days of Mykerinos; 56. Kleonymos's Near-Death Experience; 57. Eurynoos's Near-Death Experience; 58. Curma's Near-Death Experience; Jews, Christians, and Pagans; 59. The Origin of the Septuagint; 60. Miracles of Jesus; 61. Paul and Barnabas Mistaken for Pagan Gods; 62. The Discovery of the True Cross; 63. The Last Delphic Oracle; 64. "You Have Won, Galilean!"; 65. The Murder of Hypatia; Chapter 3: Legends on Various Themes.
- The Bizarre66. Capture of a Satyr; 67. Capture of a Centaur; 68. Sightings of Mermen and Mermaids; 69. The Self-Sustaining Beast; 70. In Love with a Statue; 71. Animal Offspring; 72. The Ugly Man; 73. Male Parturition; 74. Sudden Change of Sex; 75. Periodic Ecstasy; 76. The Laughing Tirynthians; 77. The Man Who Loses His Laugh; 78. A Strange Tomb; 79. The Lame Man and the Blind Man; Irony; 80. Intaphrenes's Wife; 81. A Parent's Request; 82. Plato's Characters; 83. The Unbreakable Glass Bowl; Animals; 84. The Dolphin Rider; 85. The Grateful Dolphin; 86. Androkles and the Lion.