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A Companion to Greek Mythology

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

06.05.2011

Herausgeber

Ken Dowden + weitere

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

672

Maße (L/B/H)

25/17,5/4 cm

Gewicht

1343 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-1178-2

Beschreibung

Rezension

"Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 November 2011)
 
"This collection of twenty eight articles on interpreting Greco-Roman culture presents a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to examining Greek mythology within the broader context of the intellectual and cultural development of the ancient world and provides an in depth discussion of the influence of traditional stories on the development of a shared historical culture." (Book News, 1 August 2011)

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

06.05.2011

Herausgeber

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

672

Maße (L/B/H)

25/17,5/4 cm

Gewicht

1343 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-1178-2

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: A Companion to Greek Mythology
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  • List of Illustrations viii

    List of Maps xi

    List of Tables xii

    Notes on Contributors xiii

    To the Reader xviii

    Acknowledgements xxi

    Glossary xxii

    Abbreviations xxv

    Approaching Myth 1

    1 Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through 3
    Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone

    Part I Establishing the Canon 25

    2 Homer's Use of Myth 27
    Françoise Létoublon

    3 Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century 47
    Ken Dowden

    4 Orphic Mythology 73
    Radcliffe G. Edmonds iii

    Part II Myth Performed, Myth Believed 107

    5 Singing Myth: Pindar 109
    Ian Rutherford

    6 Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists 125
    Niall Livingstone

    7 Acting Myth: Athenian Drama 141
    Jean Alaux

    8 Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts 157
    Susan Woodford

    9 Platonic 'Myths' 179
    Penelope Murray

    10 Myth in History 195
    Alan Griffiths

    Part III New Traditions 209

    11 Myth and Hellenic Identities 211
    Fritz Graf

    12 Names and Places: Myth in Alexandria 227
    Anatole Mori

    13 The Myth of Rome 243
    Matthew Fox

    14 Displaying Myth for Roman Eyes 265
    Zahra Newby

    15 The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies 283
    Ken Dowden

    16 Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi 301
    Zahra Newby

    17 Myth in Christian Authors 319
    Fritz Graf

    Part IV Older Traditions 339

    18 The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology 341
    Nicholas J. Allen

    19 Near Eastern Mythologies 357
    Alasdair Livingstone and Birgit Haskamp

    20 Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond 383
    Nanno Marinatos and Nicolas Wyatt

    Part V Interpretation 411

    21 Interpreting Images: Mysteries, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings 413
    Susan Woodford

    22 The Myth of History: The Case of Troy 425
    Dieter Hertel

    23 Women and Myth 443
    Sian Lewis

    24 Mythology of the Black Land: Greek Myths and Egyptian Origins 459
    Ian Rutherford

    25 Psychoanalysis: The Wellspring of Myth? 471
    Richard H. Armstrong

    26 Initiation: The Key to Myth? 487
    Ken Dowden

    27 The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Myth 507
    Claude Calame, translated by Ken Dowden

    Part VI Conspectus 525

    28 A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology 527
    Jan N. Bremmer

    Bibliography 549

    Index of Texts Discussed 605

    Index of Names 613

    Index of Subjects 635