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Price: $102.50

Format:
Paperback 472 pp.
8" x 10"

ISBN-10:
0195397703

ISBN-13:
9780195397703

Copyright Year:
2010

Imprint: OUP US

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Classical Mythology

Ninth Edition

Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon and Michael N. Sham

Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, Ninth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available in one volume. Featuring the authors' extensive translations of original sources as well as their clear explanations and commentary, the book brings to life the myths and legends of Greece and Rome in a lucid and engaging style. The text contains a wide variety of faithfully translated passages from Greek and Latin sources, including Homer, Hesiod, all the Homeric Hymns, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Plato, Lucian, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, and Seneca. In addition, it offers historical and cultural background on the myths, including evidence from art and archaeology, as well as ample interpretive material.

Classical Mythology, Ninth Edition, is now full-color throughout, making the robust art program even more useful and attractive. The map program has also been revised and enhanced. Michael Sham, who wrote the study guide for past

Readership : Suitable for courses in Classical Mythology, Greek/Roman Mythology, Introduction to Mythology, Classical Mythology, Greek/Roman Mythology, and Introduction to Mythology.

Reviews

  • "Classical Mythology is comprehensive, clear, well organized, current, balanced in its approach, contemporary but not highly ideological, and refreshingly respectful of religious experience. I know of no better."

    --Richard F. Moorton, Jr., Connecticut College

Part One. The Myths of Creation: The Gods
1. Interpretation and Definition of Classical Mythology
Appendix to Chapter 1: Sources for Classical Mythology
2. Historical Background of Greek Mythology
3. Myths of Creation
4. Zeus' Rise to Power: The Creation of Mortals
Additional Reading: Parallels in Myths of Greece and the Ancient Near East
5. The Twelve Olympians: Zeus, Hera, and Their Children
6. The Nature of the Gods
Appendix to Chapter 6: Greek Religion
7. Poseidon, Sea Deities, Group Divinities, and Monsters
8. Athena
9. Aphrodite and Eros
10. Artemis
Additional Reading: Selections from Euripides' Hippolytus
11. Apollo
Additional Reading: The Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo
12. Hermes
13. Dionysus, Pan, Echo, and Narcissus
14. Demeter and the Eleusinian Mysteries
15. Views of the Afterlife: The Realm of Hades
16. Orpheus and Orphism: Mystery Religions in Roman Times
Part Two. The Greek Sagas: Greek Local Legends
Introduction
17. The Theban Saga
18. The Mycenaean Saga
Additional Reading: Orestes and the Three Electras
19. The Trojan Saga and the Iliad
Appendix to Chapter 19: Meleager and the Calydonian Boar Hunt
20. The Returns and the Odyssey
21. Perseus and the Legends of Argos
Appendix to Chapter 21: Bellerophon
22. Heracles
23. Theseus and the Legends of Attica
24. Jason, Medea, and the Argonauts
Additional Reading: Jason and Medea in Euripides
25. Greek and Roman Legends in Ovid's Poetry
Part Three. The Nature of Roman Mythology
26. Roman Mythology and Saga
Part Four. The Survival of Classical Mythology
27. Classical Mythology in Literature and Art
Classical Mythology in Music, Dance, and Film

Companion Website: www.classicalmythology.org
Instructor's Manual
Test Bank

Mark. Morford is at the University of Virginia. Robert Lenardon is at The Ohio State University. Michael Sham is at Sienna College.

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Special Features

  • Comprehensive! Most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available in one volume.
  • Authors combine their own extensive translations of original source material with clear explanation and commentary to assist student comprehension. All translations feature line numbering for easy reference.
  • Offers cultural and historical background on myth, including evidence from art and archaeology.
New to this Edition
  • NEW! Full Colour makes an already robust art program even more useful and attractive.
  • NEW! Improved Pedagogy: new chapter-opening quotations, bold-faced key terms, improved timelines and genealogies, web icons in margins for better textbook/website integration.
  • NEW! Updated Content: more developed discussion on the <"Cult of the Hero,>" current theories and interpretations on classics, refreshed translations, and revised website with supplemental information on comparative mythology and expanded coverage of theories.