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

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Most of the bad broncos, if mythos is peppered with a slight shake of practicality, were more-likely-as-not just a cavvyard of crow-hoppers. a b Dowden, Ken. 1992. "Myth and Mythology" in The Uses of Greek Mythology. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-06135-3.

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Dell, Christopher (2012). Mythology: The Complete Guide to our Imagined Worlds. New York: Thames & Hudson. p.342. ISBN 978-0-500-51615-7. But the most highly gifted of all peoples in poetic insight were the Greeks. They possessed supreme ability in the interpretation of nature as expression of spirit. They have countless mythoses to express the immortality of man and his after-life. a b c Griffin, Jasper. 1986. "Greek Myth and Hesiod" in The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World, edited by J. Boardman, J. Griffin, and O. Murray. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-285438-4. p. 80. The widespread adoption of Christianity did not curb the popularity of the myths. With the rediscovery of classical antiquity in the Renaissance, the poetry of Ovid became a major influence on the imagination of poets, dramatists, musicians and artists. [3] [90] From the early years of Renaissance, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, portrayed the Pagan subjects of Greek mythology alongside more conventional Christian themes. [3] [90] Through the medium of Latin and the works of Ovid, Greek myth influenced medieval and Renaissance poets such as Petrarch, Boccaccio and Dante in Italy. [3] The Lament for Icarus (1898) by Herbert James Draper Kelly, Douglas (2003). "Sources of Greek Myth". An Outline of Greek and Roman Mythology. Douglas Kelly. ISBN 978-0-415-18636-0.Prose writers from the same periods who make reference to myths include Apuleius, Petronius, Lollianus, and Heliodorus. Two other important non-poetical sources are the Fabulae and Astronomica of the Roman writer styled as Pseudo- Hyginus, the Imagines of Philostratus the Elder and Philostratus the Younger, and the Descriptions of Callistratus. Wit and erudition are impressively evident . . . Read by Fry with his accustomed ebullient showmanship [he] gives the legends modern resonance by telling them with a contemporary colloquial twist' AUDIOBOOK of the WEEK, The Times I quite like Mythos, Stephen Fry's book on the Greek myths - he makes them amusing. I like people that illuminate the past with humour Jools Holland

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

a b c Albala, Ken G, Claudia Durst Johnson, and Vernon E. Johnson. 2000. Understanding the Odyssey. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-41107-1. In Ancient Roman times, a new Roman mythology was born through syncretization of numerous Greek and other foreign gods. This occurred because the Romans had little mythology of their own, and inheritance of the Greek mythological tradition caused the major Roman gods to adopt characteristics of their Greek equivalents. [62] :88 The gods Zeus and Jupiter are an example of this mythological overlap. In addition to the combination of the two mythological traditions, the association of the Romans with eastern religions led to further syncretizations. [69] For instance, the cult of Sun was introduced in Rome after Aurelian's successful campaigns in Syria. The Asiatic divinities Mithras (that is to say, the Sun) and Ba'al were combined with Apollo and Helios into one Sol Invictus, with conglomerated rites and compound attributes. [70] Apollo might be increasingly identified in religion with Helios or even Dionysus, but texts retelling his myths seldom reflected such developments. The traditional literary mythology was increasingly dissociated from actual religious practice. The worship of Sol as special protector of the emperors and the empire remained the chief imperial religion until it was replaced by Christianity. Reinhold, Meyer (20 October 1970). "The Generation Gap in Antiquity". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 114 (5): 347–65. JSTOR 985800. After the middle of the Archaic period, myths about relationships between male gods and male heroes became more and more frequent, indicating the parallel development of pedagogic pederasty ( παιδικὸς ἔρως, eros paidikos), thought to have been introduced around 630BC. By the end of the fifth-century BC, poets had assigned at least one eromenos, an adolescent boy who was their sexual companion, to every important god except Ares and many legendary figures. [17] Previously existing myths, such as those of Achilles and Patroclus, also then were cast in a pederastic light. [18] :54 Alexandrian poets at first, then more generally literary mythographers in the early Roman Empire, often re-adapted stories of Greek mythological characters in this fashion. The plural form mythoi is from Ancient Greek μῦθοι ( mûthoi ), and the form mythoses from mythos +‎ -es.

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The myths of origin or age of gods (Theogonies, "births of gods"): myths about the origins of the world, the gods, and the human race. The term cobber[...] is still a part of our linguistic culture, and mateship is still a part of our cultural mythos. a b Allen, Douglas. 1978. Structure & Creativity in Religion: Hermeneutics in Mircea Eliade's Phenomenology and New Directions. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-90-279-7594-2. Paul, Adams John (10 January 2010). "Mycenaean Divinities". Northridge, CA: California State University. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018 . Retrieved 25 September 2013. Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories concern the ancient Greek religion's view of the origin and nature of the world; the lives and activities of deities, heroes, and mythological creatures; and the origins and significance of the ancient Greeks' cult and ritual practices. Modern scholars study the myths to shed light on the religious and political institutions of ancient Greece, and to better understand the nature of myth-making itself. [1]

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Dowden, Ken (1992). "Myth and Mythology". The Uses of Greek Mythology. Routledge (UK). ISBN 978-0-415-06135-3. Percy, William A. 1999. "The Institutionalization of Pederasty" in Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-252-06740-2.After the rise of philosophy, history, prose and rationalism in the late 5th century BC, the fate of myth became uncertain, and mythological genealogies gave place to a conception of history which tried to exclude the supernatural (such as the Thucydidean history). [59] While poets and dramatists were reworking the myths, Greek historians and philosophers were beginning to criticize them. [8] Tales of love often involve incest, or the seduction or rape of a mortal woman by a male god, resulting in heroic offspring. The stories generally suggest that relationships between gods and mortals are something to avoid; even consenting relationships rarely have happy endings. [8] :39 In a few cases, a female divinity mates with a mortal man, as in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, where the goddess lies with Anchises to produce Aeneas. [34] 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 Harrison, Ellie (2 May 2019). "Stephen Fry announces first UK tour in 40 years". Radio Times . Retrieved 12 August 2019.