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Goddesses on the move -- To move or not to move: the mobility of virgin goddesses -- Beginning from Hestia -- Athena's ride -- Artemis the huntress -- The mobility of Olympian wives and mothers -- Aphrodite's epic love affairs and her mobility -- The mobility of Demeter and other females in the Homeric hymn to Demeter -- Hera's mobility and her choice to remain immobile -- Heroines on the move -- Away from the paternal hearth: mobile heroines in Greek tragedy -- Mobile heroines in Greek tragedy -- Io in Prometheus bound: mobility and centrifugality -- The Danaids and Io in the geography of Suppliants -- Female mobility between myth and ritual -- Maenads at the mountain: the mobility of maenads and configurations of space in Euripides' Bacchae -- The space of the hunt in huntress myths and the Arkteia at Brauron -- From female mobility to gendered spaces: the limits of mythic imagination -- The limits of mythic imagination and of female mobility in myth -- "Glass walls" as the limits of female mobility

The ancient works of Greek civilization had almost been wiped out of human consciousness until Renaissance revisited it. In early 1800s, when Greece was revolting against Turks after 400 years of slavery, Europe discovered the old Greek tragedies and works of Greek philosophers which had been oppressed by political power bearers. In the 19th century many free spirits like Lord Byron (who died in Greece during the war) were intrigued by these works and began to reinterpret and analyse them to locate universals truths relating to philosophy, ecology, psychology, natural sciences, etc in them.Ever since Renaissance (when Shakespeare made abundant use of Greek Myths in his plays) the craze and interest in Greek mythology has not slowed down. From Homer to John Milton to John Keats to Thomas Hardy, all old and contemporary writers have looked towards Greek Myths for substance for their writing and have used them in all possible genres of literature. This paper attempts to trace the influence of Greek Mythology on English literature and contemporary culture, to point towards the literary works of various centuries which intensively used Greek myths and those English films which depict the same. An effort has been made at finding out the reason behind this continuing popularity of ancient myths and to analyse such a tremendously powerful phenomenon.

Autochthony myths served the creation of an identity that was culturally and politically meaningful to the people. Since the 430s the Athenians have brought the message of their autochthony across with a confidence and insistence that seem more than average. Around a decade after Pericles' Citizenship Law, the first indications emerge that the Athenians claimed to be 'autochthones'. A century after Pericles' Citizenship Law, being an exclusive elite had become a quality of all citizens of Athens.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation -- Introduction: "Custom the King of All" -- Part One The "Controlless Core" -- 1 The "Tyrant of Gods and Men" -- Madness and the Irrational -- Death, Violence, War -- "Thermos Eros," -- Erotic Disease -- Wind, Sea, and Storm -- The Beasts of Love -- The "Very God of Evil," -- 2 The Golden Child of the Bloody Foam -- Aphrodite and Helen -- The Seduction of Zeus -- Fear and Desire on Mt. Ida -- Sappho's Aphrodite -- "Something Greater Than a God," -- Her Cruel Smile -- Aphrodite Domesticated—Somewhat -- The Goddess of Gold and Blood -- 3 Pandora's "Foul Tribe of Women" -- The Charybdis of Appetite -- The Daughters of Earth and Blood -- The Mother of Them All -- "The Memorial of Disasters," -- The Lion in the House -- The Child-Killer -- Phaedra -- "Man-Slaughterer," -- The Power of Pandora's Tribe -- 4 Monsters of Appetite -- Culture or Nature? -- The Heterosexual Paradigm -- Outrage and Shame -- The Itch of Appetite -- The Controlless Core -- Part One The "Fancied Sway" -- 5 Taming the Beasts -- Cosmic Love -- The "Steersman of the Soul," -- The Order of the Soul -- 6 Erotic Technology -- Flowers, Fruit, Furrows -- The Technology of Ritual -- Putting Aphrodite in Her Place -- Cultivating the Cyclopses' Island -- 7 Wives and the Order of the House -- Sowing Heirs and Citizens -- The Most Important Possession: A Chaste Wife -- Preserving the Household -- Home Economics -- Andromache -- Alcestis -- Circumspect Penelope -- The Rehabilitation of Helen -- The Technology of Marriage -- 8 Eros the Pedagogue -- The Heterosexual Paradigm Revisited -- The Drinking Party -- Outrage, Shame, and "Just Eros," -- Taming the Horses of the Soul