Heroes
Subtitle: mortals and myths in ancient Greece
By: edited by Sabine Albersmeier ; with essays by Michael J. Anderson ... [et al.].
Contributors: Albersmeier, Sabine.; Anderson, Michael J. 1967-
Publisher: Walters Art Museum; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780300154726; 9780911886733
Subjects: 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
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Recovering the past : the origins of Greek heroes and hero cult / Jorge J. Bravo III; title: Four paradigmatic heroes; title: The singularity of Herakles / Jennifer Larson; title: Achilles beyond the Iliad / Guy Hedreen; title: Helen : heroine of cult, heroine in art / H.A. Shapiro; title: Odysseus : an epic hero with a human face / Ralf von den Hoff; title: Child heroes in Greek art / John H. Oakley; title: The hero beyond himself : heroic death in ancient Greek poetry and art / Corinne Ondine Pache; title: Beloved of the gods : imag(in)ing heroes in Greek art / Jenifer Neils; title: The cult of heroes / Gunnel Ekroth; title: Heroes as moral agents and moral examples / Michael J. Anderson; title: Catalogue; title: Heroes in myth; title: Heroes in cult; title: Emulation.