Table of Contents: “…The birth of Athena -- Children of the gods -- The erotic impulse -- The return of Hephaistos -- The reception of Herakles among the gods -- Other gods arrive on Olympos -- The battle of the gods against the Titans and Typhon -- The battle between the gods and the Giants -- Other opponents of the gods -- Kadmos and his family; Pentheus -- Perseus, Bellerophon and Oedipus -- Herakles -- Theseus -- The epic of the Argonauts -- The Seven Against Thebes -- The Trojan War -- Scenes from the Iliad -- The Aithiopis -- The Little Iliad -- The Ilioupersis ("Troy Destroyed") -- The Orestes Saga -- The Odyssey…”

Table of Contents: “…Rutter ; Textiles / Brendan Burke ; Jewellery / Robert Laffineur Events ; Eruption of Thera/Santorini / Sturt W. Manning ; Trojan War / Trevor Bryce ; The Collapse at the End of the Bronze Age / Oliver Dickinson. -- Section IV: Specific Sites and Regions -- Crete. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Prehellenic mythology -- The Aegean pantheon -- The mythology of classical Greece -- Formation of the world and birth of the gods -- Cronus: birth of Zeus -- The origins of humanity -- The Olympians -- Zeus -- Hera -- Athene -- Apollo -- The retinue of Apollo -- Artemis -- Hermes -- Ares -- Hephaestus -- Aphrodite -- The retinue of Aphrodite -- Poseidon -- Hestia -- The lesser gods of Olympus -- Sidereal a and meteorological gods -- Helios -- Selene -- Eos -- Orion: the Pleiades; the Hyades -- Gods of the winds -- Gods of the waters -- Divinities of the sea -- Freshwater divinities -- Divinities of the earth -- Gaea, Rhea, and Cybele -- Demeter -- Dionysus -- The retinue of Dionysus -- Rural divinities -- Divinities concerned with the life of man -- Divinities of birth and health -- Divinities concerned with morality -- The underworld and its divinities -- The sovereign of the underworld -- The auxiliaries of Hades -- The heroes -- Hercules -- The twelve labours -- Theseus and the heroes of Attica -- Other heroes of Attica -- Bellerophon and the heroes of Corinth -- Persues and the heroes of the Argolis -- Other heroes of Argolis -- The Dioscuri and the heroes of Laconia -- Helen and the Trojan War -- Oedipus and the heroes of Boeotia -- Meleager and the heroes of Aetolia -- Peleus, and Argonauts and the heroes of Thessaly -- Orpheus and the heroes of Thrace -- Minos and the heroes of Crete.…”

Table of Contents: “…Overview ; War as history ; Hope and glory ; The consequences of war ; The horrors of war ; The American home front ; Peace and alternatives to war ; Bringing it all together: two case studies. The Trojan War ; September 11, 2001 ; References -- Resources for adults. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Myth -- Introducing Troy -- The making of a myth -- The story of discovery -- The truth about the Trojan War -- Part II. City -- Early Troy, c.3000-1750 BCE -- Troy in the Age of Heroes, c.1750-1180 BCE -- Troy in the "Dark Age," c.1180-900 BCE -- Troy in the Greek world, c.900-335 BCE -- Troy in the Hellenistic world, 334-85 BCE -- Troy in the Roman world, 85 BCE-Seventh century -- Part III. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Lest We Forget: The Trojan War as Cultural Matrix…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Euripides's poetic game and law of composition -- Anthropomorphism -- The protection of the self and the role of sophia -- Some connotations of sophia -- Polyneikes' truth -- Hecuba's rhetoric -- Eros in Euripides's poetics : sex as the cause of the Trojan War -- The lewd gaze of the eye -- The power of love : who is Aphrodite? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Reunion: Penelope, Clytemnestra, and Trojan War homecomings…”
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