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With this manner of emphasising the human element, the mythology of the
heroes takes a new direction from the very beginning, which characteristically
leads into Tragedy. The legends of heroes lead us from the solemn, self/
explanatory ...
With this manner of emphasising the human element, the mythology of the
heroes takes a new direction from the very beginning, which characteristically
leads into Tragedy. The legends of heroes lead us from the solemn, self/
explanatory ...
Page 14
Attic Tragedy attaches itself to the cult and the mythology of heroes. There is no
break here, no gulf between them. There is an unbroken continuity of intellectual
activity, which, with regard to the mythology of the heroes, that henvcult by ...
Attic Tragedy attaches itself to the cult and the mythology of heroes. There is no
break here, no gulf between them. There is an unbroken continuity of intellectual
activity, which, with regard to the mythology of the heroes, that henvcult by ...
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This is how the story was put on the stage by Euripides, in a famous tragedy
entitled 'Antiope'.105 It has not come down to us complete, but we can still
reproduce its contents. It began with the story told by that herdsman to whom
Antiope had ...
This is how the story was put on the stage by Euripides, in a famous tragedy
entitled 'Antiope'.105 It has not come down to us complete, but we can still
reproduce its contents. It began with the story told by that herdsman to whom
Antiope had ...
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Contents
Kadmos and Harmonia | 25 |
Pelops and Hippodameia | 62 |
vn Salmoneus Melanippe and Tyro | 69 |
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According Achilles Adrastos Agamemnon Aias Aietes Aigeus Akrisios Alkmene allegedly already Amazons Amphitryon Antiope Aphrodite Apollo Argonauts Argos Ariadne Artemis Atalante Athenians Atreus Attica beast Bellerophontes bore brother brought bull called Centaur chariot child cult daughter dead death Deianeira Dionysos Dioskuroi divine Eumolpos Euripides Eurystheus Eurytos famous father goddess gods golden Greek Hades hand Harmonia Helen Hera Herakles Hermes hero Hesperides Hippodameia honour Iolaos Iolkos island Jason journey Kadmos Kekrops killed king Laios land later marriage Medeia Meleagros Menelaos Minos mother murder Mycenae narrators Odysseus Oidipus Oineus Oinomaos oracle Orpheus palace Pallas Athene Peirithoos Peleus Pelias Pelops Persephone Perseus Phrixos poet Polyneikes Poseidon primaeval Proitos queen sacrifice sent serpent Sisyphos sons story tale Tantalos temple Theban Thebes Theseus Thetis Thracian Thyestes Tiryns told took tragedy Trojan Troy underworld vase/painting shows wife young Zeus
Bibliographic information
| Title | The heroes of the Greeks Myth and man |
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| Publisher | Thames and Hudson, 1959 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 439 pages |
| Subjects | Heroes Mythology, Greek |
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