The Gods of Olympus : a history /

Elegant and entertaining, this is the history of the most vibrant characters in classical civilisation. With their vast appetites, great beauty, and warlike tendencies, it's hard to resist their pull on the imagination - even though, in antiquity, the gods of Olympus were just as often seen as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Graziosi, Barbara
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Profile, 2013.
Subjects:	Religion. Gods, Greek. Goddesses, Greek. Mythology, Greek. Civilization > Greek influences. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A Family Portrait; Part I Birth: Archaic Greece; 1. At Home in Greece; 2. Epic Visions; 3. Critical Views; Part II Dialogue: Classical Athens; 4. An Education for Greece; 5. Exile and Death; 6. Fictions and Fantasies; Part III Travel: Hellenistic Egypt; 7. Farther than Dionysos; 8. Dead Gods and Divine Planets; 9. At Home in Alexandria; Part IV Translation: The Roman Empire; 10. The Muses in Rome; 11. Ancestors, Allies, and Alter Egos; 12. Mutants; Part V Disguise: Christianity and Islam
13. Human Like You14. Demons; 15. Sackcloth and Scimitars; Part VI Born Again: The Renaissance; 16. Petrarch Paints the Gods; 17. A Cosmopolitan Carnival of Deities; 18. Old Gods in the New World; Epilogue: A Marble Head; Appendix: The Twelve Gods; List of Illustrations; Further Reading and Notes; Acknowledgements; Index