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Unit One Introduction 1

Why Study Greco-Roman Mythology? 1

What Is Mythology? 1

How to Approach Mythology? 3

Greek Mythology 10

Unit Two Creation Myths 15

Account from Bilbo's World 15

Account from Hesiod's Theogony 16

The Pelasgian Creation Myth 17

The Homeric and Orphic Creation Myths 19

Account from Metamorphoses by Ovid 20

Unit Three Five Ages of Man:Human Alienation from the Divine 23

The Five Ages of Mankind 23

Alienation of the Human and the Divine 27

Prometheus and mankind 27

Pandora's box 30

The Deucalion flood/deluge 31

Unit Four Titanic and Olympian Genealogy 35

Uranus and Cronus 35

Gaia's Children 36

Cronus and Zeus 37

War Between Old and Young Gods 39

The Olympian Gods and Goddesses 40

Nature of the major Olympians 41

Minor gods and goddesses and demi-gods 52

Unit Five Olympian Gods 55

Zeus 55

Apollo 61

Dionysus 68

Apollo versus Dionysus 75

Unit Six Olympian Goddesses 77

Hera 77

Aphrodite 82

Athena 88

Unit Seven Greek Heroes(Ⅰ) 94

Perseus(Medusa) 94

Heracles(12 Labors) 99

Unit Eight Greek Heroes(Ⅱ) 109

Theseus(the Minotaur) 109

Jason(the Golden Fleece) 115

Unit Nine Trojan War Saga:The Iliad 125

Homer's The Iliad 126

The Wrath of Achilles 127

The War 129

During the Truce 131

In the Battlefield 133

Achilles back in the War 135

The Death of Hector 139

Unit Ten Trojan War Saga:The Odyssey 143

Telemachus 143

The Wandering on the Sea 145

The Return and Reunion 152

Unit Eleven Roman Mythology 157

Roman Myths 157

Major Roman Deities 158

Deification of Julius Caesar 163

Ovid's Metamorphoses 165

Phaethon:quest for the impossible 166

Pyramus and Thisbe:love lost by mistake 170

Mercury and Battus:faithful to one's promise 171

Unit Twelve Roman Hero:The Aeneid 173

Virgil's The Aeneid 173

From Troy to Italy 173

Dido 178

The Underworld 179

The War 182

Unit Thirteen Greek Tragedy:Medea(Ⅰ) 189

Unit Fourteen Greek Tragedy:Medea(Ⅱ) 217

Unit Fifteen Myth and Art 239

Myth and Art(ancient) 239

Myth and Art(modern) 241

Myth and Culture Study 245

The Future of Myth 248

Literary Texts for Reading 250

Song from Alexander and Campaspe,John Lyly 250

Prometheus Unbound,P.B.Shelley 251

"Helen",Hilda Doolittle 251

"Leda and the Swan",W.B.Yeats 253

"Cassandra",Louise Bogan 254

Symposium,Plato 254

Supplementary Reading 259

Glossary:Names and Places 414

Bibliography 480