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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Bibliotheke | | | |  Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Helen - Helen in Greek mythology
Helen - Birth.
According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. As the story goes, Zeus took the form of a swan and had sexual relations with Leda on the same night as her husband, King Tyndareus. To Zeus, she gave birth to Helen and Polydeuces, and to Tyndareus: Clytemnestra and Castor. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched. In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that ...
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Odysseus - Journey home to Ithaca
Odysseus - The Ciconians.
After Odysseus and his men depart from Troy, they are greeted by friendly and calm waters. The ships near land and Eurylochus, convincing Odysseus that the gods were on their side, told him to go ashore and loot the nearby city. The crew had landed in Ciconia. The city was not at all protected and all of the inhabitants fled without a fight into the nearby mountains. Odysseus and his men looted the city and robbed it of all its goods. Odysseus wisely told the men to board the ships quick ...
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Catalogue of Women - Title and date In antiquity the poem was also known as the Ehoiai (Greek: Ἠοῖαι or Ἠ' οἷαι; Latin: Eoeae, Ehoeae, Eoiae, etc.), from the formula ἠ' οἵη (e hoie), "Or such a woman as ...", which introduces new sections within the poem. The poem was also referred to in the plural as Catalogues of Women, but the singular is much more common.
Richard Janko's monumental survey of epic language suggests that the Catalogue is very early (Janko 1982: 85-7): roughly contemporary with Hesiod ...
See also:Catalogue of Women, Catalogue of Women - Title and date, Catalogue of Women - Fragmentary epic, Catalogue of Women - Content, Catalogue of Women - Reception and influence, Catalogue of Women - Bibliography, Catalogue of Women - Editions, Catalogue of Women - References Read more here: » Catalogue of Women: Encyclopedia II - Catalogue of Women - Title and date |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Tantalus - Story of Tantalus Tantalus is known for having been welcomed to Zeus' table in Olympus. There he stole nectar and ambrosia, brought them back to his people, and revealed the secrets of the gods. He also offered up his son, Pelops as a sacrifice to the gods, an archetypal story of shamanic initiation in which he cut Pelops up, boiled him, and served him up as food for the gods.
The gods were said to be aware of his plan for their feast, so they didn't touch the offering; only Demeter, disturbed by the rape of her daughter Persephone, "did not realize wh ...
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| | | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth The story is set in the royal household of Aethiopia (not to be confused with Ethiopia, the modern name of Axum). King Cepheus (Greek for gardener), and queen Cassiopeia (Greek for cassia juice), had promised their daughter Andromeda (Greek for ruler of men) to the nobleman Phineus.
Cassiopeia, having boasted herself equal in beauty to the Nereids, drew down the vengeance of Poseidon, who sent an inundation on the land and a whale-like sea-monster, the Cetus, (whom some modern writers and filmmakers replaced with the Scan ...
See also:Boast of Cassiopeia, Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth, Boast of Cassiopeia - Origin of the Myth, Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth in Art, Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth in Film, Boast of Cassiopeia - Sources Read more here: » Boast of Cassiopeia: Encyclopedia II - Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - An overview The span of stories and characters in Greek mythology is incredibly far-reaching. Events ranging from the atrocities of the early gods to the brutal wars of Troy and Thebes, from the youthful pranks of Hermes to the heartfelt grief of Demeter for Persephone are related in detail. The number of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, monsters, daemons, nymphs, satyrs, and centaurs waiting to be discovered by anyone interested enough to delve into the myths ...
See also:Greek mythology, Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology, Greek mythology - An overview, Greek mythology - The age of gods, Greek mythology - The age of gods and men, Greek mythology - The age of heroes, Greek mythology - Theories of origin, Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths?, Greek mythology - Hellenistic rationalism, Greek mythology - Syncretizing trends, Greek mythology - Modern interpreters, Greek mythology - Greek cosmology, Greek mythology - Related subjects, Greek mythology - Sources Read more here: » Greek mythology: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - An overview |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Argonauts - Story Pelias, king of Iolcus in Thessaly (near the modern city of Volos), had been warned to be on his guard against a man with one shoe and, one day, upon seeing his nephew Jason with only one sandal (the other having been lost in crossing a stream), bade him to go and fetch the Golden Fleece, hoping that he would be killed in the attempt.
Jason was accompanied by some of the principal heroes of ancient Greece. The number of Argonauts varies but usually totals between 40 and 55 – traditional versions of ...
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| | | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - An overview The scope of Greek mythology is enormous. It extends from the horrific crimes of the early gods and the bloody wars of Troy and Thebes, to the childhood pranks of Hermes and the touching grief of Demeter for Persephone. The legions of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, monsters, daemons, nymphs, satyrs, and centaurs that one encounters in traversing this vast landscape are beyond count.
Greek mythology has an approximate internal chronology. While contradictions in the material make an absolute timeline impossible, it breaks down roug ...
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology The general issues in studying myths are discussed in the mythography article. While all cultures throughout the world have their own myths, the term mythology is a Greek coinage and had a specialized meaning within Greek culture.
The Greek term mythologia is a compound of two smaller words:
mythos — which in Homeric Greek means roughly "a ritualized speech act", as of a chieftain at an assembly, or of a poet or priest.
logos — which in cla ...
See also:Greek mythology, Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology, Greek mythology - An overview, Greek mythology - The age of gods, Greek mythology - The age of gods and men, Greek mythology - The age of heroes, Greek mythology - Theories of origin, Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths?, Greek mythology - Hellenistic rationalism, Greek mythology - Syncretizing trends, Greek mythology - Modern interpreters, Greek mythology - Greek cosmology, Greek mythology - Related subjects, Greek mythology - Sources Read more here: » Greek mythology: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths? "Our own myths we call reality" is one of the axioms with which Carl A.P. Ruck and Danny Staples commence The World of Classical Myth; to the Greeks, mythology was a part of their history; few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey. The Greeks used myth to explain natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities, and friendships. It was a source of pri ...
See also:Greek mythology, Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology, Greek mythology - An overview, Greek mythology - The age of gods, Greek mythology - The age of gods and men, Greek mythology - The age of heroes, Greek mythology - Theories of origin, Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths?, Greek mythology - Hellenistic rationalism, Greek mythology - Syncretizing trends, Greek mythology - Modern interpreters, Greek mythology - Greek cosmology, Greek mythology - Related subjects, Greek mythology - Sources Read more here: » Greek mythology: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths? |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Theories of origin In antiquity, historians such as Herodotus theorized that the Greek gods had been stolen directly from the Egyptians. Later on, Christian writers tried to explain Hellenic paganism through degeneration of Biblical religion. Since then, the sciences of archaeology and linguistics have been applied to the origins of Greek mythology with some interesting results.
To begin with, extant literary sources indicate that the ancient Greeks used the word Αιθιοπία to refer to a peoples:
whom they considered sacred, favored by the gods, and
li ...
See also:Greek mythology, Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology, Greek mythology - An overview, Greek mythology - The age of gods, Greek mythology - The age of gods and men, Greek mythology - The age of heroes, Greek mythology - Theories of origin, Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths?, Greek mythology - Hellenistic rationalism, Greek mythology - Syncretizing trends, Greek mythology - Modern interpreters, Greek mythology - Greek cosmology, Greek mythology - Related subjects, Greek mythology - Sources Read more here: » Greek mythology: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Theories of origin |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths? "Our own myths we call reality" is one of the axioms with which Carl A.P. Ruck and Danny Staples commence The World of Classical Myth; to the Greeks, mythology was a part of their history; few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey. The Greeks used myth to explain natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities, and friendships. It was a source of pri ...
See also:Greek mythology, Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology, Greek mythology - An overview, Greek mythology - The age of gods, Greek mythology - The age of gods and men, Greek mythology - The age of heroes, Greek mythology - Theories of origin, Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths?, Greek mythology - Hellenistic rationalism, Greek mythology - Syncretizing trends, Greek mythology - Belles and Beaus of Greek Mythology, Greek mythology - Modern interpreters, Greek mythology - Greek cosmology, Greek mythology - Related subjects, Greek mythology - Sources Read more here: » Greek mythology: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths? |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Catalogue of Women - Content The complete epic comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Each book may have been up to 1000 lines long. The poem is not a heroic epic, in the way that the Iliad is, though it shares many of its characteristics; it belongs rather to the genre of antiquarian or didactic epic.
The poem consists of genealogies of famous women in Greek mythology, and their descendants by both men and gods. The poem opens, "Sing now of the tribe of women, sweet-voiced Olympian Muses, daughters of aigis-bearing Zeus: those women who were the noblest, and had sex with gods." This i ...
See also:Catalogue of Women, Catalogue of Women - Title and date, Catalogue of Women - Fragmentary epic, Catalogue of Women - Content, Catalogue of Women - Reception and influence, Catalogue of Women - Bibliography, Catalogue of Women - Editions, Catalogue of Women - References Read more here: » Catalogue of Women: Encyclopedia II - Catalogue of Women - Content |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Catalogue of Women - Reception and influence As noted above, the poem has similarities to many passages in Homer. This implies that they share a common genre in some respects: the Catalogue did not exist in isolation, but belonged to a clear tradition of genealogical poetry.
The Catalogue was extremely influential in the Hellenistic period. The Bibliotheke or Library of Greek mythology (attributed, wrongly, to Apollodoros) appears to have been largely modelled on the Catalogue, giving valuable evidence on the Catalogue's structure. The w ...
See also:Catalogue of Women, Catalogue of Women - Title and date, Catalogue of Women - Fragmentary epic, Catalogue of Women - Content, Catalogue of Women - Reception and influence, Catalogue of Women - Bibliography, Catalogue of Women - Editions, Catalogue of Women - References Read more here: » Catalogue of Women: Encyclopedia II - Catalogue of Women - Reception and influence |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Catalogue of Women - Fragmentary epic The poem is fragmentary, meaning that it survives in quotations, scraps of ancient papyrus, and second-hand references in other authors. It is much better-attested than most "lost" works, though, and surviving portions of the original text are well over 1000 lines of verse, longer than either of the other "Hesiodic" poems, the Works and Days and Theogony.
References to the poem are normally in the form of a fragment number in a specified edition, with line numbers: e.g. "fr. 23(a).15 M-W" means fragment 23(a) in the edition by M(erkel ...
See also:Catalogue of Women, Catalogue of Women - Title and date, Catalogue of Women - Fragmentary epic, Catalogue of Women - Content, Catalogue of Women - Reception and influence, Catalogue of Women - Bibliography, Catalogue of Women - Editions, Catalogue of Women - References Read more here: » Catalogue of Women: Encyclopedia II - Catalogue of Women - Fragmentary epic |
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| | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Boast of Cassiopeia - Origin of the Myth Four constellations are associated with the myth, and their relative positions create a scene which may be the origin of a proportion of the myth. Viewing the fainter stars, visible to the naked eye, renders the constellations as
A large man wearing a crown (upside down with respect to the ecliptic. (The constellation Cepheus)
A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair. Due to the proximity to the pole star, it is visible the whole year, although sometimes upside down whilst in the chair [1]. The Greeks consi ...
See also:Boast of Cassiopeia, Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth, Boast of Cassiopeia - Origin of the Myth, Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth in Art, Boast of Cassiopeia - The Myth in Film, Boast of Cassiopeia - Sources Read more here: » Boast of Cassiopeia: Encyclopedia II - Boast of Cassiopeia - Origin of the Myth |
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| | | | | | | Bibliotheke: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology The general issues in studying myths are discussed in the mythography article. While all cultures throughout the world have their own myths, the term mythology is a Greek coinage and had a specialized meaning within Greek culture.
The Greek term muthologia is a compound of two smaller words:
muthos — which in Homeric Greek means roughly "a ritualized speech act", as of a chieftain at an assembly, or of a poet or priest.
logos — which in cla ...
See also:Greek mythology, Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology, Greek mythology - An overview, Greek mythology - The age of gods, Greek mythology - The age of gods and men, Greek mythology - The age of heroes, Greek mythology - Theories of origin, Greek mythology - Did the Greeks believe their myths?, Greek mythology - Hellenistic rationalism, Greek mythology - Syncretizing trends, Greek mythology - Belles and Beaus of Greek Mythology, Greek mythology - Modern interpreters, Greek mythology - Greek cosmology, Greek mythology - Related subjects, Greek mythology - Sources Read more here: » Greek mythology: Encyclopedia II - Greek mythology - Nature and sources of Greek mythology |
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