The Greek Myths, revised edition.

The Greek Myths revised edition.

Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

The Greek Myths ( Penguin )

The Greek Myths.

* Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths 1955.

* Myths of the Greek Goddess Hecate

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The Greek Myths, ( 1955 ) 1960.

* Robert Graves, The Greek Myths

* Favourite Greek Myths, Mary Pope Osbourne Aedes Iovis Optimi Maximi Capitolini

Robert Graves ( The Greek Myths ) suggested that the cow was actually turned loose within a moderately confined space, and that where she lay down, a temple to the moon-goddess ( Selene ) was erected: " A cow's strategic and commercial sensibilities are not well developed ," Graves remarked.

* Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, 1955, 142. ff, 142. 2, 3, 5

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* The Greek Myths by Robert Graves

* Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths

The Greek Myths, 1955.

The Greek Myths.

Robert Graves ( The Greek Myths ) reported a suggestion that had been made by Salomon Reinach and expanded by James S. Van Teslaar that the hearers aboard the ship, including a supposed Egyptian, Thamus, apparently misheard Thamus Panmegas tethneke ' the all-great Tammuz is dead ' for ' Thamus, Great Pan is dead!

* Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, 1955.

The Greek Myths

* Graves, Robert ( 1955 ), The Greek Myths, London: Penguin, pgs 73-75: ( Iphigenia Among the Taurians )

Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths.

The Greek Myths, section 136. c-d and references

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

There are differences between the Ugaritic pantheon and that of Phoenicia centuries later: according to the third-hand Greek and Christian reports of Sanchuniathon, the Phoenician mythographer would have Dagon the brother of Ēl / Cronus and like him son of Sky / Uranus and Earth, but not truly Hadad's father.

Syncretized versions form the classical tradition of mythography, and by the time of the influential Renaissance mythographer Natalis Comes ( 16th century ), few if any distinctions were made between Greek and Roman myths.

Pherecydes of Leros (; 450s BC ) was a Greek mythographer and logographer.

Acusilaus ( Ancient Greek: ) of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer and mythographer who lived in the latter half of the 6th century BC but whose work survives only in fragments and summaries of individual points.

This Greek mythographer at the court of Macedon in the late 4th century BC held that myths were actually true stories of historical persons, twisted and amplified.

The Greek mythographer Euhemerus originated the concept of Euhemerism, which treats mythological accounts as a reflection of actual historical events shaped by retelling and traditional mores.

Greek mythographer Acusilaus marks the bull Taurus as the same that formed the myth of the Cretan Bull, one of The Twelve Labors of Hercules.

* 1975 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer ( b. 1901 )

They are said to go back at least to the Greek poet Lycophron, in the third century BCE ; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century.

* Agis of Argos, an ancient Greek poet

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

Alexander Aetolus () was a Greek poet and grammarian, the only known representative of Aetolian poetry.

Alexis (, c. 394 BC – c. 288 BC ) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period.

Bust of Homer, the ancient Greek epic poet.

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

* 1911 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist ( d. 1992 )

* 1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist

The second story tells of the Greek poet Arion of Lesbos ( 7th century BC ), who was saved by a dolphin.

** Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

** Thebaid and Achilleid by Statius ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

Other indications of dating are obtained by stylometry and this section therefore is an appropriate place to consider some aspects of his style as a Greek poet.

Epigram is associated with ' point ' because the European epigram tradition takes the Latin poet Martial as its principal model ; he copied and adapted Greek models ( particularly the contemporary poets Lucillius and Nicarchus ) selectively and in the process redefined the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of ' satura ', hexameter satire, as practised by ( among others ) his contemporary Juvenal.

* 1884 – Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet ( d. 1974 )

* 1857 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem ( b. 1798 )

In the Western classical tradition, Homer (;, Hómēros ) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet.

Hesiod ( or ;, Hēsíodos ) was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

* 1847 – Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet ( b. 1772 )

* 1910 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer ( d. 1975 )

* 1940 – Katerina Gogou, Greek actress and poet ( d. 1993 )

Another example of the textual arguments against the Testimonium is that it uses the Greek term poietes to mean " doer " ( as part of the phrase " doer of wonderful works ") but elsewhere in his works, Josephus only uses the term poietes to mean " poet ," whereas this use of " poietes " seems consistent with the Greek of Eusebius.