This new edition of Anthology of Classical Myth offers selections from key Near Eastern texts—the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Epic of Creation (Enuma Elish), and Atrahasis; the Hittite Song of Emergence; and the flood story from the book of Genesis—thereby enabling students to explore the many similarities between ancient Greek and Mesopotamian mythology and enhancing its reputation as the best and most complete collection of its kind.
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Anthology of Classical Myth
Primary Sources in Translation
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Anthology of Classical Myth
Primary Sources in Translation
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Anthology of Classical Myth
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note to Students
- A Note to Instructors
- Maps
- Genealogical Charts
- Timelines
- Acusilaus, fragments
- Aelian, Historical Miscellany, excerpts
- Aeschylus, fragments
- Andron, fragment
- Antoninus Liberalis, Collection of Metamorphoses, selections
- Apollodorus, Library, excerpts
- Archilochus, fragments (trans. by A. Miller)
- Arrian, Anabasis, excerpt
- Babrius, Fables, selections
- Bacchylides, selections (trans. by A. Miller)
- Bion, Lament for Adonis
- Callimachus, Hymns, selections
- Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus
- Conon, Stories, selections
- Cornutus, Compendium of the Traditions of Greek Theology, excerpts
- Critias, Sisyphos, fragment
- Diodorus of Sicily, Historical Library, excerpts
- Eratosthenes, Constellation Myths, selections
- Euripides, fragments
- Fulgentius, Myths, selections
- Hellanicus, fragments
- Heraclitus, Homeric Problems, excerpts
- Herodorus, On Heracles, fragments
- Herodotus, Histories, excerpts
- Hesiod, excerpts (trans. by S. Lombardo)
- Homeric Hymns (trans. by A. Lang, updated and modified)
- Horace, Odes, selections
- Hyginus, Stories, selections
- Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, excerpts
- Lucian, selections
- Lucretius, On the Workings of the Universe, excerpts
- Ovid, Heroides, selections
- Palaephatus, On Unbelievable Things, selections
- Parthenius, Sentimental Love Stories, selections
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, excerpts (trans. by J. G. Frazer, adapted)
- Pherecydes, The Histories, fragments
- Pindar, Olympians, selection (trans. by A. Miller)
- Plato, excerpts
- Plutarch, Life of Theseus, excerpt
- Proclus, Summaries of the Cyclic Epics
- Sallustius, On the Gods and the Cosmos, excerpt
- Sappho, fragment (trans. by A. Miller)
- Semonides, fragment (trans. by A. Miller)
- Simonides (trans. by A. Miller)
- Sophocles, fragments
- Statius, Achilleid, excerpts (trans. by N. Zeiner)
- Theocritus, Idylls
- Theophrastus, Characters
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, excerpt (trans. by P. Woodruff)
- Vergil, excerpts
- Xenophanes, fragments (trans. by A. Miller)
- Xenophon, Memorabilia, excerpt
- Appendix One: Linear B Sources
- Appendix Two: Inscriptions
- Appendix Three: Papyri
- Appendix Four: Near Eastern Myth
- Note on the Texts and Translation
- Names and Transliteration
- Index/Glossary
- Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
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