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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]
Subjects:
Mythology, Greek.
Mythology, Roman.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.