Anthology of classical myth: primary sources in translation

This is a collection of translations of ancient Greek and Roman sources ... suitable for teaching classical mythology at the undergraduate level.-Pref. This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks. In addition to the complete texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this collection provides generous selections from over 50 texts composed between the Archaic Age and the fourth century ad. Ancient interpretation of myth is represented here in selections from the allegorists Heraclitus, Cornutus and Fulgentius, the rationalists Palaephatus and Diodorus of Sicily, and the philosophers and historians Plato, Herodotus and Thucydides. Appendices treat evidence from inscriptions, papyri and Linear B tablets and include a thematic index, a mythological dictionary, and genealogies. [An] Introduction supports students working with the primary sources and the other resources offered here; an extensive note to instructors offers suggestions on how to incorporate this book into their courses.-http://www.booksinprint.com.

Originally published: Indianapolis : Hackett Pub., ©2004.

Fragments / Acusilaus -- Historical miscellany, excerpts / Aelian -- Fragments / Aeschylus -- Origins of the custom of cremation, fragment / Andron -- Collection of metamorphoses, selections / Antoninus Liberalis -- Library, excerpts / Apollodorus -- Fragments (trans. by A. Miller) / Archilochus -- Anabasis, excerpt / Arrian -- Fables, selections / Babrius -- Selections (trans. by A. Miller) / Bacchylides -- Lament for Adonis / Bion -- Hymns, selections / Callimachus -- Hymn to Zeus / Cleanthes -- Stories, selections / Conon -- Compendium of the traditions of Greek theology, excerpts / Cornutus -- Sisphos, fragment / Critias -- Historical library, excerpts / Diodorus -- Constellation myths, selections / Eratosthenes -- Fragments / Euripides -- Myths, selections / Fulgentius -- Fragments / Hellanicus -- Homeric problems, excerpts / Heraclitus -- On Heracles, fragments / Herodorus -- Histories, excerpts / Herodotus -- Excerpts (trans. by S. Lombardo) / Hesiod -- (trans. by A. Lang, updated and modified) / Homeric hymns -- Odes, selections / Horace -- Stories, selections / Hyginus -- Daphnis and Chloe, excerpts / Longus -- Selections / Lucian -- On the workings of the universe, excer…