Myths, Muses and Mortals : The Way of Life in Ancient Greece

by: Furley, W.

Myths, Muses and Mortals
The Way of Life in Ancient Greece
William Furley

A window into the human lives of classical Greece through the words they left behind.

Myths, Muses and Mortals gives new insight into a multitude of life experiences in ancient Greece. The book introduces the lives of the ancient Greeks through extracts taken from a range of sources, including poems, plays, novels, histories, lawsuits, inscriptions, and private note tablets. The voices speak for themselves in fresh translation, but in addition, William Furley gives the narratives historical context and illuminates the literary genre in which they appear. The texts are grouped around important areas of life—love relations, travel and trade, social status, divine signs, daily events, warfare, philosophies, dress code, and private and public celebration—giving voice to the variety of lives experienced by the citizens of ancient Greece and an insight into the Greek mind.

Table of Contents
Introduction

1 LOVE
Epic love
Comic love
Passionate Love
Wives and Kept women
Higher Spheres
Down to Earth

2 STATUS
Gods
Homer
The Great and the Good
New Men
Salt of the Earth
Status Symbols

3 SAIL AND OAR
For Those in Peril
Gateway to Elysium

4 SIGNS
Birds and Beasts
Oracles
Dreams
A Little Theory
Pseudosciences

5 THE DAILY ROUND
At Home
The Agora
Messaging
Business
Dinnertime
Bedtime
Street Crime

6 A BETTER WORLD
Elysian Fields
Celibacy
Out of the Dark
Orphic Initiation

7 WARFARE
Epic
Lyric: Love and War
The Heroic and the Not-So Heroic
War is the Father
Lady Luck

8 DRESS CODE
Women
Men

9 CELEBRATION
Myth
History
Private Celebration

Notes on Ancient Authors and Sources
Glossary of Ancient Terms
Note on Metre
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Photo Acknowledgements
Index

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