HEROIC MYTHS
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
IMPORTANT STUDIES AND STANDARD REFERENCE WORKS
*BURKERT, W. 1985. Greek Religion Oxford <292.08 BURK/GREE>
BURKERT, W. 1992. Orientalising Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age Cambridge, MA <901.9138056 BURK>
HORDEN, P. 1985. Thoughts of Freud, in HORDEN, P. (ed.) Freud and the Humanities: 1-25, London <150.1952 FREU>
LEFKOWITZ, M.R. 1986. Women in Greek Myth London [Read chap. 7 "Misogyny" pp.112-32, and "Epilogue" pp.133-36] <880.9352 LEFK>
LEXICON ICONOGRAPHICUM MYTHOLOGIAE CLASSICAE (LIMC)
s.v. Helen, IV.1 (1988): 498-563 [I. Kahil & N. Icard] (in French), plates IV.2 (1988): 291-359.
s.v. Herakles IV.1 (1988): 728-838 [J. Boardman et al.] (in English), plates IV.2 (1988): 444-559); V.1 (1990): 1-262 [various] (in various languages), plates V.2 (1990): 6-188
s.v. Oidipous VII.1 (1994): 1-16 [I. Krauskopf] (in German), plates VII.2 (1994): 6-17
*MORFORD, M.P.O. & LENARDON, R.J. 1994 (ed.5) Classical Mythology White Plains, N.Y. [Read section on Heracles pp.420-448, Helen pp.352-358, and Oedipus pp.324-329] <292.13 MORF>
MURRAY, O. 1980. Early Greece Fontana <901.9138 MURR>
*POWELL, B.B. 1995. Classical Myth Englewood Cliffs, N.J. [Texts on Heracles pp.439-72, Helen pp.543-57, Oedipus pp.482-89] <292.13 POWE>
SEGAL, R.A. 2004. Myth: a Very Short Introduction Oxford <201.3 SEGA>
THE ARCHAEOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, AND IDEOLOGY OF HERO CULT
COLDSTREAM, J.N. 1976. Hero cults in the Age of Homer, Journal of Hellenic Studies 96: 8-17
FOXHALL, L. & SALMON, J. (edd.) 1998. Thinking Men. Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition [contains a stimulating essay on the subject of masculinity in antiquity in general by Matthew Fox pp.6-22, and some interesting information on a peculiar aspect of Heracles' iconography by Emma Stafford pp.52-53] <880.9352041 THIN>
GOLDEN, M. 1998. Sport and Society in Ancient Greece Cambridge [esp. "Heracles, wage-labour and sport" pp.146-157] <938.0013 GOLD>
HADZISTELIOU-PRICE, T. 1979. Hero-cult in the "Age of Homer" and earlier, in BOWERSOCK, G.W. et al. (edd.) Arktouros. Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M.W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday: 219-228 Berlin <880.9001 ARKT>
*KEARNS, E. 1989. The Heroes of Attica London <292.13>
*SEAFORD, R. 1994. Reciprocity and Ritual. Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State Oxford [Read chapter IV, "Collective death ritual" pp.106-143] <883.14 SEAF>
SHAPIRO, H.A. 1989. Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens Mainz an Rhein [Read "The growth of Athenian Cults under the tyrants" pp.12-15, and "Herakles: hero and god" pp.157-163] <901.91385>
SNODGRASS, A. 2000. The archaeology of the hero, in BUXTON, R. (ed.) Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, pp. 180-190, Oxford <292.08 OXFO>
TYRRELL, W.B. & BROWN, F.S. 1991. Athenian Myths and Institutions. Words in Action Oxford [Read chap. 3 "The arete standard as a source of mythmaking" pp.41-72] <292.18 TYRR>
*WHITLEY, J. 1988. Early states and hero cults: a re-appraisal, Journal of Hellenic Studies 108: 173-182
HERACLES
BOARDMAN, J. 1982. Herakles, Theseus and Amazons, in KURTZ, D. and SPARKES, B. (edd.), The Eye of Greece. Studies in the art of Athens, 1-28, Cambridge
*BURKERT, W. 1980. Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual Berkeley [Read chapters I to III, and chapter IV "Heracles and the master of animals"] <292.13 BURK>
CYRINO, M. 1998. Heroes in d(u)ress: transvestism and power in the myths of Heracles and Achilles, Arethusa 31: 207-241
FITZGERALD, G.J. 1991. The Euripidean Heracles: an intellectual and a coward? Mnemosyne 44: 85-95
GALINSKY, G.K. & UHLENBROCK, J.P. 1986. Herakles: Passage of the Hero through 1000 years of Classical Art New Rochelle, N.Y.
*LORAUX, N. 1990. Herakles: the super-male and the feminine, in HALPERIN, D.M., WINKLER, J.J., & ZEITLIN, F.I. (edd.) Before Sexuality: 34-40 Princeton, <306.70938 BEFO>
MARCH, J.R. 1987. Deianeira and Heracles, in The Creative Poet: 49-77 <881.9 MARC>
*PIKE, D.L. 1977. Heracles: the superman and personal relationships Acta Classica 20: 73-83.
*PIKE, D.L. 1984. Pindar's treatment of the Heracles myths, Acta Classica 27: 15-22.
AMAZONS
BLOK, J.H. 1995. The Early Amazons: Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth Leiden <880.352042 BLOK>
GRAF, F. 1984. Women, war, and warlike divinities, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 55: 245-54
RIDGWAY, B.S. 1974. A story of five Amazons, American Journal of Archaeology 78: 1-17 <913.305 AME>
TYRELL, W.B. 1984. Amazons: a Study in Athenian Mythmaking Baltimore <938.0013 TYRR>
WEINBAUM, B. 1999. Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities Austin <810.99287 WEIN>
HELEN
*AUSTIN, N. 1994. Helen of Troy and her Shameless Phantom Ithaca <880.9251 AUST>
*BASSI, K. 1993. Helen and the discourse of denial in Stesichorus' palinode, Arethusa 26: 51-75
BELL, R.E. 1991. The Women of Classical Mythology: a Biographical Dictionary Santa Barbara
*CLADER, L. 1976. Helen: The Evolution from Divine to Heroic in Greek Epic Tradition Leiden <883 CLAD>
LARSEN, J. 1995. Greek Heroine Cults Madison <291.213 LARS>
LYONS, D. 1997. Gender and Immortality. Heroines in Ancient Greek Cult and Myth. Princeton <880.9352042 LYON>
*SEGAL, C. 1986. Interpreting Greek tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text London [Read Ch. VII, "The two worlds of Euripides' Helen", pp. 222-267] <882.01 SEGA>
*WOODBURY, L. 1967. Helen and the palinode, Phoenix 21: 157-76
OEDIPUS
BREMMER, J. 1983. Scapegoat rituals in Ancient Greece, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 87: 299-320
*BREMMER, J. 1987. Oedipus and the Greek Oedipus complex, in BREMMER, J (ed.) Interpretations of Greek Mythology: 41- 59, London <292.13 INTE>
*BUXTON, R.G.A. 1980. Blindness and limits: Sophocles and the logic of myths, Journal of Hellenic Studies 100: 22-37
*DE KOCK, E.L. 1961. The Sophoklean Oidipous and its antecedents, Acta Classica 4: 7-28, and 5(1962): 15-37
*EDMUNDS, L. 1981. The cults and the legend of Oedipus, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 85: 221-238
EDMUNDS, L. 1981. The Sphinx in the Oedipus Legend Hain <292.13 EDMU>
*EDMUNDS, L. 1985. Oedipus. The Ancient Legend and its Later Analogues Baltimore <292.13 EDMU>
LLOYD-JONES, H. 1985. Psychoanalysis and the Study of the Ancient World, in HORDEN, P. (ed.) Freud and the Humanities: 152-180, London <150.1952 FREU>
*PARKER, R.C.T. 1983. Miasma Oxford [Read chapter IV "The shedding of blood" pp.104-143, chap. IX "Purifying the city" pp.257-280, chap. X "Purity and Salvation" pp.281-307, and chap. XI "Some scenes from Tragedy" pp.308-321] <938.0013 PARK>
RANK, O. 1992. The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend Baltimore <809.93353 RANK>
VERNANT, J.-P. 1982. From Oedipus to Periander: lameness, tyranny, incest in legend and history, Arethusa 15: 19-38
WILSON, J.P. 2004. The Hero and the City: an Interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus Ann Arbor <882.22 OEDI(WILS)>
ESSAY TOPICS
Write an essay of about 2000 words on one of the following topics. Submission date:
Tuesday 10 May. Please hand in your essay to the Departmental Secretary, Beattie 203.
Either:
Heroes are often seen as paradigms of manhood. Do the myths of Heracles and Oedipus support this view?
Or:
"Female heroes are mainly defined in cult and myth by their relations to male kin." Evaluate this statement with respect to the myth and cult of Helen.
Or:
Examine the cults and stories of the Amazons and discuss their significance and function for Greek culture and society
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