UID:
almafu_9959328811202883
Format:
1 online resource (xxvii, 643 pages) :
,
illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781444396942
,
1444396943
,
9781444396935
,
1444396935
,
9781444396928
,
1444396927
,
9781444331844
,
1444331841
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
Content:
"A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks? contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts Includes coverage of Greek myth?s intersection with history, philosophy and religion Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece."--Provided by publisher.
Note:
Approaching Myth. Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through / Ken Dowden, Niall Livingstone -- pt. 1. Establishing the Canon. Homer's Use of Myth / Françoise Létoublon ; Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century / Ken Dowden ; Orphic Mythology / Radcliffe G Edmonds -- pt. II. Myth Performed, Myth Believed. Singing Myth: Pindar / Ian Rutherford ; Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists / Niall Livingstone ; Acting Myth: Athenian Drama / Jean Alaux ; Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts / Susan Woodford ; Platonic 'Myths' / Penelope Murray ; Myth in History / Alan Griffiths -- pt. III. New Traditions. Myth and Hellenic Identities / Fritz Graf ; Names and Places: Myth in Alexandria / Anatole Mori ; The Myth of Rome / Matthew Fox ; Displaying Myth for Roman Eyes / Zahra Newby ; The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies / Ken Dowden ; Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi / Zahra Newby ; Myth in Christian Authors / Fritz Graf -- pt. IV. Older Traditions. The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology / Nicholas J Allen ; Near Eastern Mythologies / Alasdair Livingstone, Birgit Haskamp ; Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond / Nanno Marinatos, Nicolas Wyatt -- pt. V. Interpretation. Interpreting Images: Mysteries, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings / Susan Woodford ; The Myth of History: The Case of Troy / Dieter Hertel ; Women and Myth / Sian Lewis ; Mythology of the Black Land: Greek Myths and Egyptian Origins / Ian Rutherford ; Psychoanalysis: The Wellspring of Myth? / Richard H Armstrong ; Initiation: The Key to Myth? / Ken Dowden ; The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Myth / Claude Calame, Ken Dowden -- pt. VI. Conspectus. A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology / Jan N Bremmer.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Companion to Greek mythology. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 ISBN 9781405111782
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781118785164
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444396942
