On heroes /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English Ancient Greek |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2003
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Series: | Writings from the Greco-Roman world (Brill Academic Publishers)
v. 3 Writings from the Greco-Roman world ; v. 3 Writings from the Greco-Roman world v. 3 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries to Philostratus's On Heroes
- The Heroes of Philostratus's On Heroes: Fiction, Epic, and Hero-Cult
- Initiation into the Mysteries of Heroes: Ancient Greek Hero Cult and On Heroes
- Continuity and Tradition in Philostratus's On Heroes
- The Educational Value of On Heroes
- The Plot of On Heroes
- Philostratus and On Heroes as a Sophistic Work
- Protesilaos: Origins and Trajectories of His Story in Literature, Art, and Cult
- The Two Great Heroes: Protesilaos and Achilles
- On Critiquing Heroic Traditions
- The Aims of the Dialogue
- On Reading the Dialogue
- Philostratus On Heroes
- The Phoenician's Quest (1.1-8.18)
- The Vinedresser and the Phoenician Meet (1.1-6.6)
- The Phoenician's Doubts Overcome (6.7-8.18)
- Protesilaos (9.1-23.30)
- The Sanctuary of Protesilaos at Elaious (9.1-7)
- Protesilaos's Appearance, Character, and Way of Life (10.1-13.4)
- Suppliants at Protesilaos's Sanctuary (14.1-17.6)
- Recent Appearances of Heroes at Troy (18.1-23.1)
- The Battle at Mysia and the Contest of the Shield (23.2-30)
- Protesilaos's Opinion of Homer (24.1-25.17)
- The Catalogue of the Heroes (25.18-42.4)
- Nestor and Antilokhos (25.18-26.20)
- Diomedes and Sthenelos (27.1-13)
- Philoktetes (28.1-14)
- Agamemnon, Menelaos, and Idomeneus (29.1-30.3)
- The Locrian Ajax (31.1-32.2)
- Palamedes and Odysseus (33.1-34.7)
- The Telamonian Ajax (35.1-36.1)
- The Trojan Heroes (36.2-42.4)
- On Homer and His Art (43.1-44.4)
- Achilles (44.5-57.17)
- Achilles' Life, Appearance, and Character (44.5-52.2)