Myths, Muses and Mortals

Foreword
Glossary of Ancient Terms
Note on Metre
LOVE
Epic love
Comic love
Passionate Love
Wives and kept women
Higher Spheres
Down to Earth
STATUS
Gods
Homer
The Great and the Good
New Men
Salt of the Earth
Status Symbols
SAIL AND OAR
For Those in Peril
Gateway to Elysium
SIGNS
Birds and Beasts
Oracles
Dreams
A Little Theory
Pseudo-Sciences
THE DAILY ROUND
At Home
The Agora
Messaging
Dinnertime
Bedtime
Street Crime
A BETTER WORLD
The Beginnings
Elysian Fields
Celibacy
Out of the Dark
Orphic Initiation
WARFARE
Epic
Lyric: Love and War
The Heroic and the not-so heroic
War is the Father
Lady Luck
DRESS CODE
Women
Men
CELEBRATION
Myth
History
Private Celebration
Notes on Ancient Authors and Sources
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Photo Acknowledgements
Index

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love; mythology; trade; source analysis; Greece; social status; poetry; travel