UID:
almafu_9961633087902883
Format:
1 online resource (438 pages)
ISBN:
3-11-078011-9
Series Statement:
MythosEikonPoiesis ; v.14
Content:
This series is dedicated to classical studies in general. The featured essays primarily examine topics relating to the ancient world from the fields of literary, visual, media, theatre, religious, and cultural studies. There is a particular emphasis on the application of modern theories, e.g. in the sphere of anthropology, performativity and narrativity; interdisciplinary comparisons; the mythical/ritual and iconic poetics of texts and images; and the reception of classical material in this context.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Epos -- Historicizing Homer's Myth in the Homeric Epigrams -- The Aristotelian Constitution of the Ithacans and Homero-Cyclic Reception of the Odyssey -- "Let Me Tell You an Ancient Deed of the Distant Past": The Epic Hero as a 'Historian' -- Authority, Power and Governability in the Odyssey: The Mythical Birth of the Polis -- Part II: Lyric Poetry -- Domestic and Political Order in the 'Foundation Myths' of Partheneia -- Myth, Memory and a Massacre on the Road to Dodona: Reinterpreting an Elegiac Lament from Archaic Ambracia (SEG 41.540A) -- Part III: Historiography -- Shaping History: The Case of the Tyrannicides and the Marathonomachoi -- The Myth of Troy Turned into History: Thucydides' Archaeology -- The Argive Women, Beards and Democracy -- Seeking Agariste -- The Herodotean Myth on the Origin of the Scythians -- Part IV: Drama -- (Re)writing a Sicilian Myth: The Palici and Aeschylus' Aitnaiai -- "To Be Buried or Not to Be Buried?" Necropolitics in Athenian History and Sophocles' Antigone -- Sophocles' Trachiniae and the Peloponnesian War: A New Perspective -- The Authority of 'History' in the Exodus of Sophocles' Trachiniae -- Nectanebo II and Philip II in Mythic Disguise: Comedy's Burlesque of History -- Part V: Loci and Tempora -- The Myth of Opheltes at Nemea in the Context of Rivalry in the Archaic Peloponnese -- Marginal Remarks on the Concept of 'Time of Origins' in Classical Greek Culture -- Myth and History in the Court of Archelaus -- Part VI: Roman Era and Late Antiquity -- "Oceans Rise, Empires Fall": Cyclical Time and History in Seneca's Quaestiones Naturales 3 -- Herodotus' Phoenix between Hesiod and Papyrus Harris 500, and Its Legacy in Tacitus -- Empire, Ethnicity, Exegesis: Lucian on Interpretations of Greek Myth in the Roman Mediterranean.
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Myth and History in Libanius' Imperial Speeches -- Myth and Levels of Language in the Octavia -- Appendix -- The Editors -- The Contributors -- Index Rerum et Nominum Notabiliorum.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Christopoulos, Menelaos Myth and History: Close Encounters Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2022
Language:
English
