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Title Heroes : mortals and myths in ancient Greece / edited by Sabine Albersmeier ; with essays by Michael J. Anderson .. [and others]..

Publication Info. Baltimore : Walters Art Museum ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2009]
©2009

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  OVERSIZE 292.213 H559H    Check Shelf
Description 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Note Catalog of an exhibition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Recovering the past : the origins of Greek heroes and hero cult / Jorge J. Bravo III -- Four paradigmatic heroes -- The singularity of Herakles / Jennifer Larson -- Achilles beyond the Iliad / Guy Hedreen -- Helen : heroine of cult, heroine in art / H.A. Shapiro -- Odysseus : an epic hero with a human face / Ralf von den Hoff -- Child heroes in Greek art / John H. Oakley -- The hero beyond himself : heroic death in ancient Greek poetry and art / Corinne Ondine Pache -- Beloved of the gods : imag(in)ing heroes in Greek art / Jenifer Neils -- The cult of heroes / Gunnel Ekroth -- Heroes as moral agents and moral examples / Michael J. Anderson -- Catalogue -- Heroes in myth -- Heroes in cult -- Emulation.
Subject Hero worship -- Greece -- History -- Exhibitions.
Heroes -- Greece -- History -- Exhibitions.
Mythology, Greek -- Exhibitions.
Art, Greek -- History -- Exhibitions.
Greek literature -- History and criticism -- Exhibitions.
Heroes in literature -- Exhibitions.
Heroes in art -- Exhibitions.
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Exhibitions.
Greece -- Religion -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Albersmeier, Sabine.
Anderson, Michael J. (Michael John), 1967-
ISBN 9780300154726 hardcover
0300154720 hardcover
9780911886733 softcover
0911886737 softcover
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