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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology presents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of ancient Greek mythic tradition. Divided into three sections, the work consists of sixteen original articles authored by an ensemble of some of the world's most distinguished scholars of classical mythology. Part I provides readers with an examination of the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written literature from the epic poetry of the eighth century BC to the mythographic catalogs of the early centuries AD. Part II looks at the relationship between myth, religion, art, and politics among the Greeks and at the Roman appropriation of Greek mythic tradition. The reception of Greek myth from the Middle Ages to modernity, in literature, feminist scholarship, and cinema, rounds out the work in Part III. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology is a unique resource that will be of interest and value not only to undergraduate and graduate students and professional scholars, but also to anyone interested in the myths of the ancient Greeks and their impact on western tradition.

Roger D. Woodard is the Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor of the Classics and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York). He has taught in the United States and Europe and is the author of a number of books on myth and ancient civilization, most recently Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult. Dr. Woodard is editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, which received a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award in 2006.

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The Cambridge Companion to

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Edited by

Roger D. Woodard

Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor of the Classics Professor of Linguistics

University of Buffalo (The State University of New York)

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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Muthoi in Continuity and Variation

ROGER D. WOODARD

Part 1: Sources and Interpretations 1 Lyric and Greek Myth

GREGORY NAGY

2 Homer and Greek Myth

GREGORY NAGY

3 Hesiod and Greek Myth

ROGER D. WOODARD

4 Tragedy and Greek Myth

RICHARD BUXTON

5 Myth in Aristophanes

ANGUS BOWIE

6 Plato Philomythos

DISKIN CLAY

7 Hellenistic Mythographers

CAROLYN HIGBIE

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Contents

Part 2: Response, Integration,

Representation

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8 Greek Myth and Greek Religion

259

CLAUDE CALAME

9 Myth and Greek Art: Creating a Visual Language

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JENIFER NEILS

10 Mythic Landscapes of Greece

305

ADA COHEN

11 Politics and Greek Myth

331

JONATHAN M. HALL

12 Ovid and Greek Myth

355

A. J. BOYLE

Part 3: Reception

383

13 Women and Greek Myth

387

VANDA ZAJKO

14 Let Us Make Gods in Our Image: Greek Myth in

Medieval and Renaissance Literature

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H. DAVID BRUMBLE

15 `Hail, Muse! et cetera': Greek Myth in English and

American Literature

425

SARAH ANNES BROWN

16 Greek Myth on the Screen

453

MARTIN M. WINKLER

Bibliography

481

Index

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Figures

Figures follow page 304

1 A Fox Telling Aesop Fables. Red-figure kylix of the Bologna Painter from Vulci.

2 The Charioteer of the Phaedrus. Andrea Sansovino. 3 Deeds of Theseus. Attic red-figure cup attributed to the Codrus

Painter from Vulci. 4 Tyrannicides. Casts of Roman marble copies after bronze originals

by Kritios and Nesiotes. 5 Departure of a Hero. Attic Late Geometric spouted crater from

Thebes. 6 Death of Priam; Attic black-figure amphora by Lydos from Vulci. 7 Return of Hephaestus. Attic red-figure skyphos attributed to the

Curti Painter. 8 Return of Hephaestus. Attic red-figure volute-crater by Polion

from Spina. 9 Heracles and the Nemean Lion. Metope from the Temple of Zeus

at Olympia. 10 Birth of Erichthonius. Attic red-figure squat lekythos attributed

to the Meidias Painter. 11 Battle of Athena and a Giant. Attic red-figure lekythos attributed

to Douris. 12 Naval Fresco from Akrotiri. 13 Nymphs and Pan. Marble votive relief. 14 The Blinding of Polyphemus. Fragment from a vase. 15 Meeting of Odysseus and Nausicaa. Lid of a red-figure pyxis

attributed to Aison. 16 Abduction of the Leucippides by the Dioscuri and the Garden of

the Hesperides. Attic red-figure hydria by the Meidias Painter.

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17 Odysseus' Descent to the Underworld. Drawing of Attic redfigure pelike attributed to the Lykaon Painter.

18 The Suicide of Ajax. Black-figure amphora by Exekias. 19 Book 2, Emblem 2, in Frances Quarles, Emblemes. 20 "Venus," from The Copenhagen Planet Book. See Filedt Kok (1985)

for a similar blockbook by the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet. 21 Clash of the Titans. Zeus and the "Arena of Life." 22 Jason and the Argonauts. Hera observing Jason and Medea on the

Olympian screen. 23 Jason and the Argonauts. Talos towering above the Argonauts. 24 Hercules. Our hero at the climax of the film that made him immor-

tal on the screen. 25 Hercules Conquers Atlantis. Hercules, descended from his twelve-

horse chariot, discovers massacre victims at the palace of Atlantis. Note the panther reliefs on the wall.

Tables

3.1 Comparison of Indo-Iranian Traditions: Cosmogonic

and Cosmologic

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3.2 Comparison of Greek and Indic Traditions

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Contributors

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ANGUS BOWIE is Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, and the Lobel Praelector in Classics. His publications include The Poetic Dialect of Sappho and Alcaeus (1981) and Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy (1993). Dr. Bowie also serves as editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies.

A. J. BOYLE is professor of classics at the University of Southern California. His recent publications include Tragic Seneca (1997), Ovid's Fasti (with R. D. Woodard 2000), Flavian Rome (with W. J. Dominik 2003), Ovid and the Monuments (2004), and Roman Tragedy (2006).

Professor SARAH ANNES BROWN is professor of English at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She is the author of The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes (1999) and the coeditor (with Charles Martindale) of Nicholas Rowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (1997). She has also published numerous shorter pieces on various aspects of classical reception, including articles on its relationship with queer theory and science fiction. She is currently editing a collection of essays, Tragedy in Transition (with Catherine Silverstone).

H. DAVID BRUMBLE is professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Among his scholarly works are Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings (1998) and Street Gangs and Warrior Tribes (forthcoming).

RICHARD BUXTON is professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Bristol. Among the works he has authored are Persuasion in Greek Tragedy (1982), Sophocles (1984; reprinted with Addenda 1995),

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