Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, 1)

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North John A., Mary Beard, and Simon R. F. Price. 1998. "The Religions of Imperial Rome" in Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-31682-8. p. 259. Reinhold, Meyer (20 October 1970). "The Generation Gap in Antiquity". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 114 (5): 347–65. JSTOR 985800. Each god descends from his or her own genealogy, pursues differing interests, has a certain area of expertise, and is governed by a unique personality; however, these descriptions arise from a multiplicity of archaic local variants, which do not always agree with one another. When these gods are called upon in poetry, prayer, or cult, they are referred to by a combination of their name and epithets, that identify them by these distinctions from other manifestations of themselves (e.g., Apollo Musagetes is " Apollo, [as] leader of the Muses"). Alternatively, the epithet may identify a particular and localized aspect of the god, sometimes thought to be already ancient during the classical epoch of Greece. The earlier inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula were an agricultural people who, using animism, assigned a spirit to every aspect of nature. Eventually, these vague spirits assumed human forms and entered the local mythology as gods. [16] :17 When tribes from the north of the Balkan Peninsula invaded, they brought with them a new pantheon of gods, based on conquest, force, prowess in battle, and violent heroism. Other older gods of the agricultural world fused with those of the more powerful invaders or else faded into insignificance. [16] :18

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths, 1)

Bulfinch, Thomas (2003). "Greek Mythology and Homer". Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-30881-9. A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology. The gods of Greek mythology are described as having essentially corporeal but ideal bodies. According to Walter Burkert, the defining characteristic of Greek anthropomorphism is that "the Greek gods are persons, not abstractions, ideas or concepts." [20] :182 Regardless of their underlying forms, the Ancient Greek gods have many fantastic abilities; most significantly, the gods are not affected by disease, and can be wounded only under highly unusual circumstances. The Greeks considered immortality as the distinctive characteristic of their gods; this immortality, as well as unfading youth, was insured by the constant use of nectar and ambrosia, by which the divine blood was renewed in their veins. [29] :4 Nilsson, Martin P. (1940). "The Religion of Eleusis". Greek Popular Religion. Columbia University Press. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 20 November 2006.Jane Henle, Greek Myths: A Vase Painter's Notebook (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973) ISBN 0-253-32636-2 Fry takes us from Zeus to Athena with humour. The Greek gods of the past become relatable as pop culture, modern literature and music are woven throughout. Joyfully informal yet full of the literary legacy * Guardian * Algra, Keimpe. 1999. "The Beginnings of Cosmology" in The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44667-9. Morford M.P.O., Lenardon L.J. (2006). Classical Mythology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-530805-1.

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Artemis: 'Hm. Come to think, that's nothing. You grant wishes to the smallest and least significant nymphs and water sprites. Would you grant me several wishes?'

Veyne, Paul (1988). Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on Constitutive Imagination. (translated by Paula Wissing). University of Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-85434-2.

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Mythos takes readers briskly through the family tree of Ouranos and Gaia, which is populated by gods and goddesses, well-known beasties, and eventually us mere mortals. If your eyes glazed over reading that sentence, don’t despair! Fry puts it in terms like this: I lost my myth-loving mojo. In fact, I lost all interest in anything verging on fantasy. This is a problem because not only do I have FOMO when I can’t get through beloved books like Circe or Piranesi, but I feel like I can’t brain on the regular when attempting the New York Times Crossword every Sunday. (Man, do those crossword writers love their gods and goddesses!)

NOW THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MYTHOS SUITE, STEPHEN FRY AND DEBBIE WISEMAN'S MUSICAL PRODUCTION OF FRY'S THRILLING RETELLINGS It appears that the Mycenaean religion was the mother of the Greek religion [81] and its pantheon already included many divinities that can be found in classical Greece. [82] However, Greek mythology is generally seen as having heavy influence of Pre-Greek and Near Eastern cultures, and as such contains few important elements for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European religion. [83] Consequently, Greek mythology received minimal scholarly attention in the context of Indo-European comparative mythology until the mid 2000s. [84] a b c d e f Graf, Fritz. 2009 [1993]. Greek Mythology: An Introduction, translated by T. Marier. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801846571. Mythos captures these extraordinary myths for our modern age - in all their dazzling and deeply human relevance.

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This is the first in Fry’s “Great Mythology” series, followed by Heroes and the forthcoming Troy and The Odyssey. I do plan to read them all, which should really help me up my NYT Crossword game. Geometric designs on pottery of the eighth-century BC depict scenes from the Trojan cycle, as well as the adventures of Heracles. [13] These visual representations of myths are important for two reasons. Firstly, many Greek myths are attested on vases earlier than in literary sources: of the twelve labors of Heracles, for example, only the Cerberus adventure occurs in a contemporary literary text. [14] Secondly, visual sources sometimes represent myths or mythical scenes that are not attested in any extant literary source. In some cases, the first known representation of a myth in geometric art predates its first known representation in late archaic poetry, by several centuries. [5] In the Archaic ( c. 750– c. 500BC), Classical ( c. 480–323BC), and Hellenistic (323–146BC) periods, Homeric and various other mythological scenes appear, supplementing the existing literary evidence. [3] Survey of mythic history Phaedra with an attendant, probably her nurse, a fresco from Pompeii, c. 60– c. 20BC Caldwell, Richard. 1990. "The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Greek Myth" in Approaches to Greek Myth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-3864-4. p. 344. Allen, Douglas (1978). "Early Methological Approaches". Structure & Creativity in Religion: Hermeneutics in Mircea Eliade's Phenomenology and New Directions. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-90-279-7594-2. Adkins, A. W. H.; Pollard, John R. T. (2 March 2020) [2002]. "Greek Religion". Encyclopædia Britannica.Segal, Robert A. (1990). " The Romantic Appeal of Joseph Campbell." Christian Century (April 1990):332–5. Archived from the original on 7 January 2007. Miles, Geoffrey, ed. (2006). Classical Mythology in English literature: A Critical Anthology. Routledge. ISBN 0415147557. OCLC 912455670. No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. See also: Roman mythology Apollo (early Imperial Roman copy of a fourth-century Greek original, Louvre Museum)