Wandering Hero, Wandering Myths? The Image of Heracles in Iran

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface. Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World VII
4. Introduction. Travelling Myths, Travelling Heroes XXXIII
5. Part I: Changing Cultural and Mythical Landscapes in Anatolia
6. Kingship in Heaven in Anatolia, Syria and Greece. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence 3
7. Making Meaning of Myth. On the Interpretation of Mythological Imagery in the Polyxena Sarcophagus and the Kızılbel Tomb and the History of Achaemenid Asia Minor 23
8. Myth, Memory and the Past. Wandering Heroes between Arcadia and Cyprus 71
9. Part II: Reception and Innovation of Mythological Programmes between Greece and Italy
10. From Mezntie to Mezentius? The Stratigraphy of a Myth in Etruria and Rome 95
11. Pots, Plots, and Performance. Comic and Tragic Iconography in Apulian Vase Painting 125
12. Distributed Narrative. A Very Short History of Juxtaposing Myths on Pompeian Walls 143
13. No One is Immortal. From Exemplum Mortalitatis to Exemplum Virtutis 169
14. Attic Sarcophagi. Myth Selection and the Heroising Tradition 209
15. Part III: Wandering East, Wandering South
16. Gilgāmeš and Homer: The Missing Link? 265
17. Myth, Memory, and Mimesis. The Inaros Cycle as Literature of Resistance 281
18. Death on the Nile: The Myth of Osiris and the Utility of History in Diodorus. Egypt In Greco-Roman Historiography 309
19. Wandering Hero, Wandering Myths? The Image of Heracles in Iran 327
20. The Transformations of Achilles on Late Roman Mosaics in the East 357
21. Epilogue 397
22. Index 405