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Clive Gilson 
Tales Of Fire & Bronze 

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Mythology was at the heart of everyday life in Ancient Greece. Greeks regarded mythology as a part of their history, using myth to explain natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities and friendships. It was a source of pride to be able to trace the descent of one’s leaders from a mythological hero or a god. Few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey.

Greek myths concern the origin and the nature of the world, the lives and activities of deities, heroes, and mythological creatures, and the origins and significance of the ancient Greeks’ own cult and ritual practices.

The Greek myths were initially propagated in an oral-poetic tradition most likely by Minoan and Mycenaean singers. Eventually the myths of the heroes of the Trojan War and its aftermath became part of the oral tradition of Homer’s epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Two poems by Homer’s near contemporary Hesiod, the Theogony and the Works and Days, contain accounts of the genesis of the world, the succession of divine rulers, the succession of human ages, the origin of human woes, and the origin of sacrificial practices.

Myths are also preserved in the Homeric Hymns, in fragments of epic poems of the Epic Cycle, in lyric poems, in the works of the tragedians and comedians of the fifth century BC, in writings of scholars and poets of the Hellenistic Age, and in texts from the time of the Roman Empire by writers such as Plutarch and Pausanias.
The adaptations in this book come from the nineteenth century tradition of translation and interpretation from collectors, notably such as Andrew Lang and Charles Kingsley, amongst many others.

As ever, it’s been a delight and an education to read and work with these stunning texts. I hope you enjoy them too, for as the final line of The Golden Crab says, “And then they lived happily, and we who hear the story are happier still.”

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PREFACE
FORTUNATUS AND HIS PURSE
THE CURSE OF ECHO
HOW ALEXANDER THE KING GOT THE WATER OF LIFE
HOW THE DRAGON WAS TRICKED
THE GOLDEN CRAB
THE SEVEN HEADED SERPENT
THE WOOD-FOLK.
THE JUDGMENT OF MIDAS
PROMETHEUS
THE DELUGE
ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
ICARUS AND DAEDALUS
PHAETHON
NIOBE
ADMETUS AND THE SHEPHERD
ALCESTIS
APOLLO’S SISTER
THE CALYDONIAN HUNT
ATALANTA’S RACE
ARACHNE
PYRAMUS AND THISBE
PYGMALION AND GALATEA
OEDIPUS
CUPID AND PSYCHE
THE TRIAL OF PSYCHE
STORIES OF THE TROJAN WAR
THE HOUSE OF AGAMEMNON
PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA
ENDYMION
APOLLO AND DAPHNE
IDAS AND MARPESSA
ARETHUSA
PERSEUS THE HERO
HYACINTHUS
CEYX AND HALCYONE
ARISTÆUS THE BEE-KEEPER
PERSEPHONE
LATONA AND THE RUSTICS
CLYTIE
THE CRANES OF IBYCUS
SYRINX
THE DEATH OF ADONIS
HOW THE CENTAUR TRAINED THE HEROES ON PELION
HOW JASON LOST HIS SANDAL IN ANAUROS
HOW THEY BUILT THE SHIP “ARGO” IN IOLCOS
HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS
HOW THE ARGONAUTS WERE DRIVEN INTO THE UNKNOWN SEA
HOW THESEUS LIFTED THE STONE
HOW THESEUS SLEW THE DEVOURERS OF MEN
HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR
HOW THESEUS FELL BY HIS PRIDE
HISTORICAL NOTES
ABOUT THE EDITOR

O autorze

I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household – Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.

I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.

A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People.

I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two.

Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, Euro Sport and others as a rugby 'Stato’, covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late ’90’s and early ’00’s.

I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President – Technology with a major UK Fin Tech company.

You can find out more about Clive’s work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com
Język Angielski ● Format EPUB ● Strony 374 ● ISBN 9781913500610 ● Rozmiar pliku 0.3 MB ● Redaktor Clive Gilson ● Wydawca Clive Gilson ● Opublikowany 2019 ● Do pobrania 24 miesięcy ● Waluta EUR ● ID 7314544 ● Ochrona przed kopiowaniem Adobe DRM
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