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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century
Other Authors:	Maclean, Jennifer K. Berenson, 1963-, Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw, 1961-2014
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English Ancient Greek
Published:	Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, ©2001.
Series:	Writings from the Greco-Roman world ; v. 1.
Subjects:	Protesilaus > (Mythological character) > Early works to 1800. Dialogues, Greek > Translations into English. Trojan War > Early works to 1800. Heroes > Early works to 1800. Heroes > Greece > Early works to 1800. Hero worship > Greece > Early works to 1800. Early works Translations
Online Access:	CONNECT

Table of Contents:

The Sign of the Hero: A Prologue / Gregory Nagy
The Plot of the Heroikos
The Genre of the Heroikos
Authorship and Dating of the Heroikos
Philostratus and the Heroikos as a Sophistic Work
Protesilaos: Origins and Trajectories of His Story in Literature, Art, and Cult
The Two Great Heroes of the Heroikos: Protesilaos and Achilles
The Heroikos and Homer: On Critiquing Heroic Traditions
The Heroikos and Its Aims
On Reading the Heroikos
Philostratus Heroikos: Text and Translation
The Phoenician's Quest (1.1-8.18)
The Vinedresser and the Phoenician Meet (1.1-6.6)
The Phoenician's Doubts Overcome (6.7-8.18)
Protesilaos (9.1-23.30)
The Sanctuary of Protesilaos at Elaious (9.1-7)
Protesilaos's Appearance, Character, and Way of Life (10.1-13.4)
Suppliants at Protesilaos's Sanctuary (14.1-17.6)
Recent Appearances of Heroes at Troy (18.1-23.1)
The Battle at Mysia and the Contest of the Shield (23.2-30)
Protesilaos's Opinion of Homer (24.1-25.17)
The Catalogue of the Heroes (25.18-42.4)
Nestor and Antilokhos (25.18-26.20)
Diomedes and Sthenelos (27.1-13)
Philoktetes (28.1-14)
Agamemnon, Menelaos, and Idomeneus (29.1-30.3)
The Locrian Ajax (31.1-32.2)
Palamedes and Odysseus (33.1-34.7)
The Telamonian Ajax (35.1-36.1)
The Trojan Heroes (36.2-42.4)
On Homer and His Art (43.1-44.4)
Achilles (44.5-57.17)
Achilles' Life, Appearance, and Character (44.5-52.2)
The Cult of Achilles at Troy (52.3-54.1)
On Leuke (54.2-57.17).