Zeus: A Journey Through Greece in the Footsteps of a GodBloomsbury Publishing USA, 5.2.2008 - 310 sivua In the tradition of Walking the Bible, an irresistible tour through some of the most powerful stories ever told. Lusty, lightning-tempered, polyamorous Zeus was the most powerful and charismatic of the Greek gods, and the progenitor of some of the most enduring stories of world mythology. In Zeus, author Tom Stone takes readers on a 4,000-year journey through the god s tumultuous life, from his origins as a sky god in the Russian steppes and his scandalous reign on Mt. Olympus to his approaching end in a palace storeroom in Christian Constantinople. Crossing the length and breadth of Greece, Stone and his Iranian wife explore the most significant sites in Greek myth, from mountaintops to subterranean caves, Olympus to Crete, and Mycenae to Macedonia. Along the way, he reveals how Zeus s story grew from the soil of Greece and changed along with the country s history, all with a brilliant mix of erudition and bravura storytelling. Combining mythology, history, and travel, this is an indispensable book for anyone who loves Greece or its great stories of myth and legend. |
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Pericles | 3 |
The Coming of the Greeks | 7 |
The Minoans | 17 |
Fearsome Echoes | 23 |
PART TWO THE | 35 |
Cradle to Grave | 37 |
The Road to Power | 49 |
PART THREE THE FATHER | 63 |
A Terrible Beauty | 156 |
Remembered Pain | 162 |
The Killing Doom | 169 |
PART FOUR THE HOLY GHOST | 177 |
The Voices of God | 179 |
Holding the Center | 189 |
Their Finest Hour | 194 |
The Wonder of the World | 203 |
Spreading the Faith | 65 |
Prométheus Pandóra and Other Matters | 74 |
Divine Rights | 83 |
The Cretan Saga | 91 |
The IllFated Marriage of Kadmos and Harmonía | 112 |
Perseus | 121 |
Hérakles | 127 |
The Beginnings | 139 |
Mycenae | 149 |
The Dying Fall | 209 |
Fires from Heaven | 216 |
The Final Metamorphosis | 228 |
Acknowledgments | 239 |
Notes | 241 |
Selected Bibliography | 293 |
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