Artist: Elizabeth Vandiver
introduction
herodotus and history
introduction to homeric epic
heroes homecomings
the homeric question
the death of patroklos
guests and hosts
within the walls of troy
the longest day
the paradox of glory
achilles and hektor
the ionian enlightenment
the role of the gods
the embassy to achilles
achilles returns to battle
athens in the archaic age
cyrus and the foundation of the persian empire
the beginnings of the conflict
the battles of thermopylae and artemisium
darius and the scythians
sparta and the spartan way of life
a goddess and a princess
the ascension of darius
odysseus tells his own story
the ionian revolt and the battle of marathon
aftermath and influence
the trojan war and the archaeologistsr
reunion and return
xerxes and the threat to greece
from persephone s land to the island of helios
first was chaos
the tragedies of king oedipus
apollo and artemis
the victory of greece
hermes and dionysos
what is myth
odysseus and penelope
immortals and mortals
monstrous females and female monsters
the trojan war
the terrible house of atreus
gods are useful
from myth to history and back again
the eleusinian mysteries and the afterlife
from ovid to the stars
demeter persephone and the conquest of death
blood vengeance justice and the furies
culture prehistory and the great goddess
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