William Hansen - Handbook of classical mythology (2004)

William Hansen - Handbook of classical mythology (2004)

• Preface
• A Note on the Use of Acient Texts
• Part. 01: Introduction
• Basic Concepts
• How Classical Mythology Came into Being
• A Mix of Traditions
• The Archaic Period
• The Classical Period
• The Hellenistic and Imperial Periods
• Interpretatio Romana
• Classical Mythology after Antiquity
• How Do We Know about Classical Mythology Today?
• The Mythological World: Places
• Earth
• Sky
• Death Realm
• Tartaros
• Physical Model versus Biological Model
• The Mythological World: Characters
• The Principal Gods
• The Nature of Gods and Humans
• Nature Spirits
• The Relationship of Gods and Humans
• Peculiarities of Mythological Narrative
• Supernaturalism
• Personification and Reification
• Binatural Beings versus Composite Beings
• Reversible and Irreversible Changes
• Part. 02: Time: What Happens in Classical Mythology
• Divine Time and Human Time
• What Happens in Classical Mythology
• From Chaos to Cosmos
• Two Cosmic Families
• The Cosmic House
• The Succession of World Rulers
• The First Humans
• The Division of Meat
• The Theft of Fire
• The Loss of Paradise
• The Great Deluge
• The Origin of Nations
• The Gods Establish their Cults
• The Mating of Gods and Humans
• The Heroic Age
• A Family of the Heroic Age: The Pelopids
• Antecedents to the Trojan War
• The Trojan War
• The Returns
• The End of the Heroic Age
• What Does Classical Mythology Say?
• The Nature of the Physical World
• The Nature of the Gods
• The Nature of Humans
• The Heroes, or Demigods
• Behavior Options
• Part. 03: Deities, Themes, and Concepts
• Part. 04: Annotated Print and Nonprint Resources
• Abbreviations and Selected Reference List
• Glossary
• Index
• About the Author
  

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