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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... Troy, and at the events surrounding his murder when he returned home triumphant once Troy was taken. The following chapter deals in greater detail with his murder by his wife Klytaimnestra, and tells of other 'dangerous women' who ...
... Troy and established himself in Latium (p. 478). Virgil had not finished work on the Aeneid at the time of his death, and it was said that he had extracted a promise to have it burnt. Luckily his wishes were disregarded. Ovid (43 BC to ...
... Troy; again, you do not refuse a god. But his love for Penelope was such that he even refused the chance of being made immortal so that he might return home to her (p. 425). Another Homeric hero is often judged harshly: Achilles, the ...
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 ...
... Troy, whom she carried off to her home in Ethiopia in the farthest east. She loved him so much that she had Zeus grant him immortality, but she forgot to ask that he might remain forever young. As time went by he grew older and older ...
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 | |