UID:
almahu_9948197665102882
Format:
1 online resource (xxvii, 643 pages) :
,
illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781444396942
,
1444396943
,
9781444331844
,
1444331841
,
9781444396928
,
1444396927
,
9781444396935
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1444396935
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.
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. -- Bibliography -- Index of Texts Discussed -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Companion to Greek mythology. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 ISBN 9781405111782
Additional Edition:
ISBN 140511178X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444396942
