TY - BOOK AU - Kershaw,Stephen P. TI - A Brief guide to Greek myths SN - 9781845295127 AV - BL 783 .K47 2007 PY - 0000///c200 CY - London PB - Robinson KW - Mythology, Greek N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Myths and mythology--; From the primal void to a lost continent, the main Greek myths: From Chaos and Castration to order, the birth of the gods-- Apollo and Artemis, music, love and hunting-- The creation of man and woman, the great flood, transgressors and heroines-- Jason and the Argonauts, Medeia-- Argos and the monster-slayers-- Herakles, the greatest of the heroes-- Thebes and Oidipous-- From Atlas to Hektor-- From Asopos to Akhilleus-- Athens: the early Kings-- Theseus and the Minotaur-- Curses and cannibalism, the house of Pelops-- The Trojan war-- Homer's Iliad: The wrath of Akhilleus-- The wooden horse and the sack of troy-- The returns of the heroes-- The Odyssey and its sequels-- Plato and the myth of Atlantis; Some approaches to Greek mythology ER -