New heroes in antiquity
Subtitle: from Achilles to Antinoos
By: Christopher Jones.
Series: Revealing antiquity -- 18
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780674035867
Subjects: Mythology, Greek; Gods, Greek; Superheroes -- Greece; Heroes -- Greece; Greece -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Poetic heroes; title: Local heroes; title: Warriors and patriots; title: Athletes, poets, philosophers; title: Private heroes; title: Greek heroes in a Roman world; title: Antinoos; title: Heroes and saints; title: Appendix: Living heroes.