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All Greek.(A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology)(The Genealogy of Greek Mythology)(Book Review)
You wait thousands of years for a family tree of all the Greek gods, and then two come along at once. The first, A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology (North Carolina), began in 1964 as the hobby of the late Harold Newman and was recently completed by Jon O. Newman, his son. An enterprise of Daedalian complexity, the complete chart spreads along seventy-two huge pages and contains 3,673 mythological figures, all interrelated and ultimately descended from Chaos, a primal force mentioned by Hesiod who is the great-great-grandparent of Zeus. The sexual activity of classical deities does not lend itself to neat tabulation; Zeus and Apollo, notoriously promiscuous, appear with alarming frequency. Undeterred, the Newmans (both lawyers) list alternate kinships in the index and maintain that there is a "high degree of generational ...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Bai, Matt Kalb, Claudia Rosenberg, Debra June 23, 1997 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Szadkowski, Joseph June 17, 2002 700+ words
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- Using Greek mythology to teach game theory.
- Magazine article from: American Economist Miller, James D. Felton, Debbie September 22, 2002 700+ words
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- The Routledge handbook of Greek mythology; based on H.J. Rose's Handbook of...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2009 700+ words
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- ART EXHIBIT USES GREEK MYTHOLOGY, 1920S FOR SUBJECTS
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News August 12, 2009 700+ words
...sculpting wood since 1980. The exhibit uses two common themes found in much of Bandel's work - Greek mythology and the 1920s. "Greek mythology has been a deep well of artistic inspiration for hundreds of years and the 1920s were a very interesting...
