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基本信息·出版社：艺洲出版社
·页码：352 页
·出版日期：1999年08月
·ISBN：0446607258
·条形码：9780446607254
·版本：第1版
·装帧：简装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：神话
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《Mythology》A collection of Greek and Roman myths arranged in sections on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, the Trojan war, and a brief section on Norse mythology.For over fifty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Weslern mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort Io poslpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only relells these stories with brilliant clarity but shows us how the ancients saw their own place in the world and how their themes echo in our consciousness today. An essenlial part of every home library, MYTHOLOGY is lhe definitive volume for anyone who wants to know the key dramas, the primary characters, the triumphs, failures, fears, and hopes first narrated thousands of years ago——and still spellbinding to this day. EDITH HAMILTON is the acclaimed author of The Greek Way end The Roman Way, which have been read by generations of readers around the world. She was made an honorary citizen of Athens in 1957.
作者简介 Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton (born Aug. 12, 1867, Dresden, Saxony-died May 31, 1963, Washington, D.C., U.S.) U.S. scholar and educator. Born in Germany of American parents, Hamilton grew up in Fort Wayne, Ind., U.S. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and at age 29 headed its preparatory school. Ultimately preferring classical studies to school administration, she retired in 1922 to write such historical works as The Greek Way (1930) and The Roman Way (1932). Her Mythology (1943) was studied by millions as a textbook.
媒体推荐 "Ms. Hamilton arranged her rich material with the idea of achieving the maximum sense and readability...[and] making her subjecl atlractive for lhe reader of todoy."
——NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Sure taste and scholarship.... Excellenl introductions to each section."
——THE NEW YORKER
编辑推荐 《Mythology》是Edith Hamilton编著的，由艺洲出版社出版发行。
目录 FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
The Mythology of the Greeks
The Greek and Roman Writers of Mythology
PART ONE: The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes
1 THE GODS
The Titans and the Twelve Great Olympians
The Lesser Gods of Olympus
The Gods of the Waters
The Underworld
The Lesser Gods of Earth
The Roman Gods
2 THE TWO GREAT GODS OF EARTH
Demeter (Ceres)
Dionysus or Bacchus
3 How THE WORLD AND MANKIND WERE CREATED
4 THE EARLIEST HEROES
Prometheus and Io
Europa
The Cyclops Polyphemus
Flower-Myths: Narcissus, Hyacinth, Adonis
PART TWO: Stories of Love and Adventure
5 CUPID AND PSYCHE
6 EIGHT BREF TALES OF LOVERS
Pyramus and Thisbe
Orpheus and Eurydice
Ceyx and Alcyone
Pygmalion and Galatea
Baucis and Philemon
Endymion
Daphne
Alpheus and Arethusa
7 THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE
8 FOUR GREAT ADVENTURES
PhaSthon
Pegasus and Bellerophon
Otus and Ephialtes
Daedalus
PART THREE: The Great Heroes before the Trojan War
9 PERSEUS
10 THESEUS
11 HERCULES
12 ATALANTA
PART FOUR: The Heroes of the Trojan War
13 THE TROJAN WAR
Prologue: The Judgment of Paris
The Trojan War
14 THE FALL OF TROY
15 THE ADVENTURES OF ODYSSEUS
16 THE ADVENTURES OF AENEAS
Part One: From Troy to Italy
Part Two: The Descent into the Lower World
Part Three: The War in Italy
PART FIVE: The Great Families of Mythology
17 THE HOUSE OF ATREUS
Tantalus and Niobe
Agamemnon and His Children
Iphigenia among the Taurians
18 THE ROYAL HOUSE OF THEBES
Cadmus and His Children
Oedipus
Antigone
The Seven against Thebes
19 THE ROYAL HOUSE OF ATHENS
Cecrops
Procne and Philomela
Procris and Cephalus
Orithyia and Boreas
Creiisa and Ion
PART SIX: The Less Important Myths
20 MIDAS-AND OTHERS
Midas
Aesculapius
The Danai'ds
Glaucus and Scylla
Erysichthon
Pomona and Vertumnus
21 BRIEF MYTHS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY
PART SEVEN: The Mythology of the Norsemen Introduction to Norse Mythology
22 THE STORIES OF SIGNY AND SIGURD
23 THE NORSE GODS
The Creation
The Norse Wisdom
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
INDEX
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序言 A book on Mythology must draw from widely different sources. Twelve hundred years separate the first writers through whom the myths have come down to us from the last, and there are stories as unlike each other as "Cinder- ella" and "King Lear." To bring them all together in one volume is really somewhat comparable to doing the same for the stories of English literature from Chaucer to the bal- lads, through Shakespeare and Marlowe and Swift and Defoe and Dryden and Pope and so on, ending with, say, Tennyson and Browning, or even, to make the comparison truer, Kipling and Galsworthy. The English collection would be bigger, but it would not contain more dissimilar material. In point of fact, Chaucer is more like Galsworthy and the ballads like Kipling than Homer is like Lucian or Aeschylus like Ovid, Faced with this problem, I determined at the outset to dis- miss any idea of unifying the tales. That would have meant either writing "King Lear," so to speak, down to the level of "Cinderella"——the vice versa procedure being obviously not possibl- else telling in my own way stories which were in no sense mine and had been told by great writers in ways they thought suited their subjects. I do not n~an, of course, that a great writer's style can be reproduced or that I should dream of attempting such a feat. My aim has been nothing more ambitious than to keep distinct for the reader the very different writers from whom our knowledge of the myths comes. For example, Hesiod is a notably simple writer and devout; he is naive, even childish, sometimes crude, always full of piety. Many of the stories in this book are told only by him. Side by side with them are stories told only by Ovid, subtle, polished, artificial, self-conscious, and the complete skeptic. My effort has been to make the reader see some dif- ference between writers who were so different. After all, when one takes up a book like this one does not ask how en- tertainingly the author has retold the stories, but how close he has brought the reader to the original.
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For the most part the immortal gods were of little use to hu- man beings and often they were quite the reverse of useful: Zeus a dangerous lover for mortal maidens and completely incalculable in his use of the terrible thunderbolt; Ares the maker of war and a general pest; Hera with no idea of justice when she was jealous as she perpetually was; Athena also a war maker, and wielding the lightning's sharp lance quite as irresponsibly as Zeus did; Aphrodite using her power chiefly to ensnare and betray. They were a beautiful, radiant com- pany, to be sure, and their adventures made excellent stories; but when they were not positively harmful, they were capri- cious and undependable and in general mortals got on best without them.
There were two, however, who were altogether different—— who were, indeed, mankind's best friends: Demeter, in Latin Ceres, the Goddess of the Corn, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea; and Dionysus, also called Bacchus, the God of Wine. Demeter was the older, as was natural. Corn was sowed long before vines were planted. The first cornfield was the begin- ning of settled life on earth. Vineyards came later. It was natural, too. that the divine power which brought forth the grain should be thought of as a goddess, not a god. When the business of man was hunting and fighting, the care of the fields belonged to the women, and as they plowed and scat- tered the seed and reaped the harvest, they felt that a woman divinity could best understand and help woman's work.
