Anthology of Classical Myth
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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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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Anthology of Classical Myth
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. A Note to Students
  10. A Note to Instructors
  11. Maps
  12. Genealogical Charts
  13. Timelines
  14. Acusilaus, fragments
  15. Aelian, Historical Miscellany, excerpts
  16. Aeschylus, fragments
  17. Andron, fragment
  18. Antoninus Liberalis, Collection of Metamorphoses, selections
  19. Apollodorus, Library, excerpts
  20. Archilochus, fragments (trans. by A. Miller)
  21. Arrian, Anabasis, excerpt
  22. Babrius, Fables, selections
  23. Bacchylides, selections (trans. by A. Miller)
  24. Bion, Lament for Adonis
  25. Callimachus, Hymns, selections
  26. Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus
  27. Conon, Stories, selections
  28. Cornutus, Compendium of the Traditions of Greek Theology, excerpts
  29. Critias, Sisyphos, fragment
  30. Diodorus of Sicily, Historical Library, excerpts
  31. Eratosthenes, Constellation Myths, selections
  32. Euripides, fragments
  33. Fulgentius, Myths, selections
  34. Hellanicus, fragments
  35. Heraclitus, Homeric Problems, excerpts
  36. Herodorus, On Heracles, fragments
  37. Herodotus, Histories, excerpts
  38. Hesiod, excerpts (trans. by S. Lombardo)
  39. Homeric Hymns (trans. by A. Lang, updated and modified)
  40. Horace, Odes, selections
  41. Hyginus, Stories, selections
  42. Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, excerpts
  43. Lucian, selections
  44. Lucretius, On the Workings of the Universe, excerpts
  45. Ovid, Heroides, selections
  46. Palaephatus, On Unbelievable Things, selections
  47. Parthenius, Sentimental Love Stories, selections
  48. Pausanias, Description of Greece, excerpts (trans. by J. G. Frazer, adapted)
  49. Pherecydes, The Histories, fragments
  50. Pindar, Olympians, selection (trans. by A. Miller)
  51. Plato, excerpts
  52. Plutarch, Life of Theseus, excerpt
  53. Proclus, Summaries of the Cyclic Epics
  54. Sallustius, On the Gods and the Cosmos, excerpt
  55. Sappho, fragment (trans. by A. Miller)
  56. Semonides, fragment (trans. by A. Miller)
  57. Simonides (trans. by A. Miller)
  58. Sophocles, fragments
  59. Statius, Achilleid, excerpts (trans. by N. Zeiner)
  60. Theocritus, Idylls
  61. Theophrastus, Characters
  62. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, excerpt (trans. by P. Woodruff)
  63. Vergil, excerpts
  64. Xenophanes, fragments (trans. by A. Miller)
  65. Xenophon, Memorabilia, excerpt
  66. Appendix One: Linear B Sources
  67. Appendix Two: Inscriptions
  68. Appendix Three: Papyri
  69. Appendix Four: Near Eastern Myth
  70. Note on the Texts and Translation
  71. Names and Transliteration
  72. Index/Glossary
  73. Back Cover