The Penguin Book of Classical MythsThe figures and events of classical myths underpin our culture and the constellations named after them fill the night sky. Whether it’s the raging Minotaur trapped in the Cretan labyrinth or the twelve labours of Hercules, Aphrodite’s birth from the waves or Zeus visiting Danae as a shower of gold, the mythology of Greece and Rome is full of unforgettable stories. All the stories of the Greek tragedies – Oedipus, Medea, Antigone – are there; all the events of the Trojan wars and of Odysseus and Aeneas’ epic journeys; the founding of Athens and of Rome... |
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... Helen, Ion, Phoenician Women, Orestes, Madness of Herakles, Iphigeneia among the Taurians, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Bakchai, and Cyclops (a satyr play, which was a mythological farce). The Rhesos was traditionally said to be by Euripides ...
... Helen, who naturally enough grew up to be the most beautiful woman in the world.) These sons would confer honour on their mother and on their wider families, and their descendants would glory in having a god in their genealogy. So we ...
... of things, either by breaking a moral law, or by having an excess of some quality, such as riches or happiness or pride. Only once does she play an active part in the myths, when she is sometimes said to be the mother of Helen.
Jennifer March. she is sometimes said to be the mother of Helen of Troy. Today Nemesis still gives her name to acts of just retribution. The Dooms (Keres) were death-spirits who throve on the deaths of mortals. The Hesiodic Shield of ...
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Contents
The Gods | |
The First Humans | |
The Quest for the Golden Fleece | |
Theseus Athens and Crete | |
The Theban Saga | |
The Trojan | |
Odysseus and His Odyssey | |
The House of Pelops | |
Dangerous Women | |
Aeneas and the Destiny of Rome | |
The Foundation of Rome | |