Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Titans
Zeus
Demeter
Apollo
Aphrodite
Other Olympians
Lesser Immortals and Near-Immortals
The Way to the Underworld
Lovers
Transformations
Trespassers
The Condemned
Heroes
Crete
Thebes
After Troy
The Wanderings and the Homecoming of Odysseus
Index of Poets
Glossary
Acknowledgments

About the Author

Nina Kossman is a translator, poet, writer, and playwright. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award, she has translated two books by Marina Tsvetaeva, In the Inmost Hour of the Soul and Poem of the End. She lives in New York.

Reviews

"Gods And Mortals is a fascinating collection of poems that brings together the classic and the contemporary, the 'old' and the 'new,' in unexpected and startling ways. Nina Kossman has brought together a richly imaginative gathering of memorable work."--Joyce Carol Oates
"This is an appealing collection for students of poetry and myth, and a must for anyone who teaches a course dealing with classical myth."--Choice
"Gods And Mortals is a fascinating collection of poems that brings together the classic and the contemporary, the 'old' and the 'new,' in unexpected and startling ways. Nina Kossman has brought together a richly imaginative gathering of memorable work."--Joyce Carol Oates
"An appealing collection for students of poetry and myth, and a must for anyone who teaches a course dealing with classical myth." Choice