The book of Greek & Roman folktales, legends, & myths /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Hansen, William F., 1941- (Editor, Translator), Fawkes, Glynnis (Illustrator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Ancient Greek and Latin.
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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245 0 4 |a The book of Greek & Roman folktales, legends, & myths /  |c edited, translated, and introduced by William Hansen ; with illustrations by Glynnis Fawkes. 
246 3 |a Book of Greek and Roman folktales, legends, and myths 
264 1 |a Princeton, New Jersey :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c [2017] 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a The Kinds of Ancient Story -- The Present Book -- KINGS AND PRINCESSES. Cupid and Psyche -- The Treasury of Rhampsinitos -- The Pharaoh and the Courtesan -- GODS AND GHOSTS. Divine Epiphanies -- The Muses Appear to Hesiod -- The Muses Appear to Archilochos -- Thamyris Competes against the Muses -- Stesichoros's Palinode -- Asklepios Heals Pandaros -- Asklepios Reveals Secrets of the Gods -- Athena Saves the Lindians -- The Altar of the Vulture God -- A Fortune in Water -- The Rescue of Simonides -- Lower Mythology -- Narcissus -- Rhoikos and the Nymph -- The Great God Pan Is Dead! -- Bogies -- Shape-Changers -- The Werewolf -- The Empousa -- Ghosts -- Philinnion -- The Last Princess at Troy -- The Grateful Dead Man -- Murder at the Inn -- Letter from the Middle of the Earth -- The Haunted House -- The Haunted Baths -- The Haunted Battlefield -- The Hero of Temesa -- Periander's Wife -- Early Wonder-Workers -- Abaris the Hyperborean -- Aristeas of Prokonnesos -- Hermotimos of Klazomenai -- Epimenides of Crete -- Pherekydes of Syros -- Pythagoras -- Transmigration of Souls -- Pythagoras Remembers an Earlier Life -- Pythagoras Discerns a Friend's Soul in a Dog -- Empedokles Recalls His Earlier Lives -- The Woman Who Remembers Too Much -- Magicians and Witches -- Pases the Magician -- Attack by Star-Stroke -- A Woman Dies from Spells -- The Soul-Drawing Wand -- Apollonios Cures a Plague -- The Magician's Apprentice -- Evil Landladies -- Divination and Seers -- The Language of Birds -- The Acquisition of the Sibylline Oracles -- What the Sibyl ants -- Bacchus Forsakes Antony -- Cato Explains a Portent -- Cato on Soothsayers -- Fate -- Polykrates's Ring -- Zeus, Why Me? -- The Last Days of Mykerinos -- Kleonymos's Near-Death Experience -- Eurynoos's Near-Death Experience -- Curma's Near-Death Experience -- Jews, Christians, and Pagans -- The Origin of the Septuagint -- Miracles of Jesus -- Paul and Barnabas Mistaken for Pagan Gods -- The Discovery of the True Cross -- The Last Delphic Oracle -- You Have Won, Galilean! -- The Murder of Hypatia -- LEGENDS ON VARIOUS THEMES. The Bizarre -- Capture of a Satyr -- Capture of a Centaur -- Sightings of Mermen and Mermaids -- The Self-Sustaining Beast -- In Love with a Statue -- Animal Offspring -- The Ugly Man -- Male Parturition -- Sudden Change of Sex -- Periodic Ecstasy -- The Laughing Tirynthians -- The Man Who Loses His Laugh -- A Strange Tomb -- The Lame Man and the Blind Man -- Irony -- Intaphrenes's Wife -- A Parent's Request -- Plato's Characters -- The Unbreakable Glass Bowl -- Animals -- The Dolphin Rider -- The Grateful Dolphin -- Androkles and the Lion -- How Ophiteia Gets Its Name -- Xanthippos's Dog -- The Accidental Killing of a Cat -- Children -- The Children Play King -- The Children Play Priest -- The Children Play War -- A Child Steals from the Goddess -- Friends -- Damon and Phintias -- Friends Unknown -- Abauchas's Choice -- Rulers and Tyrants -- Plato Teaches a Tyrant about Democracy -- The City of Forbidden Expression -- Ismenias's Subterfuge -- Queen for a Day -- The Absentminded Emperor -- Justice -- Zeus's Ledger -- The Golden Ax -- The Judge of the Ants -- Tarpeia's Reward -- The Cranes of Ibykos -- The Murder of Mitys of Argos -- An Eye for an Eye -- The Trial of the Courtesan Phryne -- The Problem of Dreamt Sex -- The Disputed Child -- Abusive Son of an Abusive Father. 
505 0 |a TRICKSTERS AND LOVERS. Trickery and Cleverness -- Trophonios and Agamedes -- The Dishonest Banker -- The Joint Depositors -- The Two Thieves -- Aesop and the Figs -- Never Heard Before -- The Slaves Take Over -- The Milesians Hold a Party -- Saving Lampsakos -- The Suckling Daughter -- A Donkey's Shadow -- The Hoax -- Lovers and Seducers -- Zeus and Hera Wrangle over Sexuality -- The Affair of Ares and Aphrodite -- Iphimedeia Desires Poseidon -- Hippolytos and Phaidra -- The Husband's Untimely Return: 1 -- The Husband's Untimely Return: 2 -- The Signal -- The Widow of Ephesos -- Sleeping with a God -- The Pergamene Boy -- Aesop and the Master's Wife -- The King's Trusted Friend -- Dream-Lovers -- The Astute Physician -- Hero and Leander -- Xanthos, Who Longs for His Wife -- Ariston and His Friend's Wife -- Olympians in the Bedroom -- ARTISTS AND ATHLETES. Artists and the Arts -- Herakles Fooled -- Nature Fooled -- Painter Fooled -- The Sculptor Polykleitos -- Models for Helen of Troy -- Helen's Chalice -- Archilochos: Lethal Iambics -- Hipponax: More Lethal Iambics -- The Cicada -- A Singer's Compensation -- Pindar's Sacrifice -- Pindar's House -- Phrynichos Fined -- The Chorus of Aeschylus's Eumenides -- Sophocles on Himself and Euripides -- I See a Weasel -- Mother, I Call to You -- Saved by Euripides -- How Menander Composes His Plays -- The First Line of Plato's Republic -- Ovid's Worst Lines -- Athletes -- The Origin of the Stadium -- The First Marathon -- The Origin of Nude Athletes -- The Origin of Nude Trainers -- Polymestor the Sprinter -- Ageus the Long-Distance Runner -- Milon the Wrestler -- Eumastas the Strongman -- Theagenes's Statue -- Poulydamas the Pancratiast -- Kleomedes Runs Amok -- Astylos Angers His Hometown -- Exainetos Pleases His Hometown -- Glaukos the Boxer -- The Reluctant Dueler -- MEMORABLE WORDS, NOTABLE ACTIONS. Portents -- The Infant Pindar on Mt Helikon -- The Infant Plato on Mt Hymettos -- Young Demosthenes in Court -- Characterizations -- A Statue of Homer -- Themistokles and the Man from Seriphos -- Aristeides the Just -- Timon the Misanthrope -- The Arrest of Theramenes -- Socrates's Hardihood -- Socrates Ponders a Problem -- Demosthenes's Handicaps -- Delivery! -- Only Human -- What Alexander Sleeps Upon -- Cleopatra's Wager -- The Lamprey Pools -- A Principled Man -- Nero Fiddles -- Where Would He Be Now? -- A Slave's Eye -- The People of Akragas -- Laconic Spartans -- Too Many Words -- A Spartan Mother -- Discussion at Thermopylae -- Alexander the Great Becomes a God -- On Spartan Adultery -- Delusion -- Menekrates, Who Calls Himself Zeus -- Menekrates-Zeus Writes to King Philip -- Philip Hosts Menekrates -- Hannon's Birds -- The Woman Who Holds Up the World with Her Finger -- The House Called Trireme -- The Happy Shipowner -- The Happy Playgoer -- Memorable Words -- Ars Longa, Vita Brevis -- Which Came First? -- Alter Ego -- Give Me a Place to Stand, and I'll Move the World! -- Life Is Like the Olympic Games -- The Die Is Cast -- Et tu, Brute? -- In Hoc Signo Vinces -- Memorable Experiences -- Toxic Honey -- A Narrow Escape -- The Great Fish -- The Discovery of Archimedes's Tomb -- Summing Up and Last Words -- Counting One's Blessings -- Socrates -- Theophrastos's Lament -- Vespasian's Last Words -- Deaths -- Pythagoras -- Aeschylus -- Euripides -- Philemon -- Diogenes the Cynic -- Zenon -- Cleopatra -- Petronius Arbiter -- Archimedes. 
505 0 |a SAGES AND PHILOSOPHERS. Truth and Wisdom -- The Seven Sages and the Prize of Wisdom -- Thales on Life and Death -- A Question of Responsibility -- A Problem of Identity -- Secundus the Silent Philosopher -- Converting to Philosophy -- Plato -- Axiothea -- Epicurus -- Benefits and Perils of Philosophy -- Aristippos on the Philosopher's Advantage -- Aristippos on the Benefits of Philosophy -- Antisthenes on the Benefits of Philosophy -- Diogenes on the Benefits of Philosophy -- Krates on the Benefits of Philosophy -- The Most Useful Man in Ephesos -- Protagoras's Books Burned -- Sinning against Philosophy -- The Philosophic Life -- Thales in the Well -- Thales and the Olive Presses -- Wealth vs Wisdom -- Simonides's View -- Aristippos's View -- The Cynics -- Diogenes on Being Laughed At -- Diogenes and the Lantern -- The Meeting of Diogenes and Alexander -- Alexander's Offer -- Diogenes on Personal Attire -- Diogenes on Temple Theft -- Diogenes on a Public Reading -- Diogenes Visits a Brothel -- Diogenes on the City of Myndos -- Watch Out! -- Krates and Hipparchia -- Monimos on Wealth -- Philosophers Criticize One Another -- Diogenes Criticizes Plato -- Plato Criticizes Diogenes -- Plato Characterizes Diogenes -- Diogenes on Plato's Theory of Ideas -- Diogenes on a Definition of Plato's -- Diogenes on the Impossibility of Motion -- Education and Learning -- A Song before Dying -- The Entrance to Plato's Classroom -- The Delian Problem -- The Worst Punishment -- Discoveries and Inventions -- The Invention of Hunting -- The Invention of Board Games -- The Original Language -- Thales Inscribes a Triangle in a Circle -- Thales Measures the Height of the Pyramids -- Thales Predicts an Eclipse -- The Pythagorean Theorem -- Eureka! -- Happiness and Contentment -- The Origin of Human Miseries -- The Rock of Tantalos -- The Sword of Damocles -- King Midas -- Wealth and Happiness -- Water and a Loaf of Bread -- Gold vs Figs -- Untouched by Grief -- The Happy Mute -- Pyrrhos and Kineas -- Drinking -- The Third Cup of Wine -- On Behaving Like Animals -- The Different Stages of Life -- The Different Kinds of People -- The Different Kinds of Women -- Aesopic Fables -- The Fox and the Crane -- The Dog with a Piece of Meat -- The Raven with a Piece of Meat -- The King of the Apes -- The Ape with Important Ancestors -- The Sour Grapes -- The Ant and the Cicada -- The Lion's Share -- The Race of the Tortoise and the Hare -- The Lion and the Mouse -- The Plump Dog -- The Transformed Weasel -- The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs -- The Tortoise That Wishes to Fly -- The King of the Frogs -- The Astronomer -- The Shepherd Who Cries -Wolf! -- Here Is Rhodes! -- The Belly and the Feet -- The Oak and the Reed -- Short Fables -- The Mountain in Labor -- The Attentive Donkey -- NUMSKULLS AND SYBARITES. Traditional Numskulls -- Margites -- Meletides -- Koroibos -- Morychos -- Akko -- The Foolish Kymaians -- The Foolish Abderites -- Other Numskulls -- Carrying the Load -- Acquiring Sense -- Seeing the Doctor -- The Trained Donkey -- The Books -- The Slave -- A Call of Nature -- The Twins -- The Funeral -- The Ball in the Well -- The Educated Son -- The Travelers -- The Grateful Father -- A Pair of Twins -- The Fugitives -- The Pillow -- Wits -- Too Healthy -- What Does It Taste Like? -- All in the Family -- The Strongest Thing -- Caesar's Soldiers Sing -- Miscellaneous -- Not at Home -- The Portent -- The Deaf Judge -- The Scythian -- The Cold Reading -- The Covetous Man and the Envious Man -- The Delicate Sybarites -- Uncomfortable Sleep -- The Suitor -- Noise Policy -- The Affliction of Work -- Excursions to the Country -- Chamber Pots -- Piped Wine -- Policy on Parties -- Dancing Horses -- Tall Tales -- Topsy-Turvy Land -- Frozen Speech -- Thin Men -- Appendix Across the Genres: Ancient Terms, Belief, and Relative Numbers -- Notes on the Tales -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Ancient Sources -- List of International Stories. 
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