Title:
XO Orpheus : fifty new myths
Author:
Bernheimer, Kate, compiler, editor.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2013.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary:
Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse--his cremains in a bullet. Here ... are your favorite mythological figures--Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful dog--alongside characters from Indian, Punjabi, Inuit, Aztec, and other traditions"--Page 4 of cover.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction / Anthropogenesis And Norse Creation Myth : Anthropogenesis, Or: How to Make a Family / Argos : Argos / Bacchantes : Sisters / Baucis And Philemon : Sawdust / Brownies : Friend Robin / Caliph Of One Thousand And One Nights : Veiled Prophet / Candaules And Gyges, As Told By Herodotus : Henry and Booboo / Coyote Myths : Modern Coyote / Cronos : Devourings / Daedalus : Labyrinth / Daedalus : Last Flight of Daedalus / Daphne : Daphne / Demeter : Demeter / Demeter And Persephone : Kid Collins / Eris : Sleeping Beauty / Galatea And Pygmalion : Galatea / God And Satan : Hand / Golem And Pygmalion : Dummy / Hades : Girl with the Talking Shadow / Human Pentachromats : Wait and See / Icarus : Occasional Icarus / Killcrop : Killcrop / Kraken : Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun / Lamia/Child-Eating Demon, Greek : Birdsong from the Radio / Lotus Eaters : Lotus Eaters / Maenads And Sinbad The Sailor : Slaves / Mahabharata : Drona's Death / Monsters : So Many-Headed Gates / Edith Hamilton's Mythology : Status of Myth / Narcissus : Narcissus / Odysseus : Back to Blandon / Odysseus : Story I Am Speaking to You Now / Oedipus : Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt / Orpheus And Eurydice : Dark Resort / Paradise : Mystery Spot: 95065 / Persephone : Lost Lake / Phaeton, From Ovid's Metamorphoses : What Wants My Son / Poseidon : Thousand / Post-Apocalypse : Belle-Medusa / Raja Rasalu : Swan's Wife / Sedna, Inuit : Sanna / Sirin : Madame Liang / Sisyphus : Sissy / Strix : In a Structure Simulating an Owl / Tezcatlipoca : Cat's Eye / Transformation : Betrayal / Trojan Horse : Horse, a Vine / Unconscious : Hungers of an Old Language / Zeus And Europa, After The D'Aulaires : White Horse
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ISBN:
9780143122425
Format :
Book
