This outstanding CD-ROM is the ultimate interactive tool for understanding the origin, cultural contexts, and interpretive theories of classical mythology.
Featuring:
• 33 chapters of Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable, selected tales and legends from the ancient text The Library, extended extracts from Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days, and the Homeric hymns to Demeter, Delian Apollo, Pythian Apollo, and Hermes—all fully searchable by word or phrase
• video tutorials and written essays by eminent classicists—including Sir Hugh Lloyd Jones, Oxford University’s Regius Professor of Greek for 29 years; Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature at Harvard University; and Mary Lefkowitz, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College—discussing topics such as cultural transmission among the Mediterranean peoples of the 8th century BC, the derivation of texts attributed to Homer and Hesiod, interpretations of the myths of Phaeton and Callisto, the connections between Greek myth and tragedy, and the Roman use of myths
• essays on modern theories of myth, such as Structuralism
• a genealogical chart of the major gods and variant traditions, derived from Hesiod’s text
• background material on Greek and Roman history, culture, and religious beliefs
• an information-packed color map of Greece and Asia Minor, a glossary of the gods, and an annotated bibliography
• "copy to clipboard" and print capabilities, plus an Internet connection
The CD-ROM can be used with either Windows or Macintosh.