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Titolo |
Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion / / edited by Menelaos Christopoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk |
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Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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979-82-16-20989-8 |
1-282-92180-0 |
9786612921803 |
0-7391-3901-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (576 p.) |
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Collana |
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Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ChristopoulosMenelaos |
KarakantzaE. D (Euphēmia D.) |
LevanioukOlga <1971-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Greek literature - History and criticism |
Light and darkness in literature |
Mythology, Greek, in literature |
Mythology, Greek |
Light - Religious aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; Introduction; Part I; COLOR SEMANTICS; Chapter One; The Significance (or Insignificance) of Blackness in Mythological Names; Chapter Two; Dark Skin and Dark Deeds; Danaids and Aigyptioi in a Culture of Light; Chapter Three; Brightness and Darkness inPindar's Pythian 3; Aigla-Koronis-Arsinoë and Her Coming of Age; Chapter Four; S-light Anomaly; Dark Brightness in Euripides' Medea; Part II; APPEARANCE AND CONCEALMENT; Chapter Five; The Light Imagery of Divine Manifestation in Homer1; Chapter Six; Trojan Night; Chapter Seven; Tithonus and Phaon |
Mythical Allegories of Light and Darkness in Sappho's PoetryChapter Eight; Erinyes as Creatures of Darkness; Chapter Nine; Journey into Light and Honors in Darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus1; Chapter Ten; Hephaestus in Homer's Epics1; God of Fire, God of Life; Part III; EYE-SIGHT/INSIGHT; Chapter Eleven; To See or Not to See; Blind People and |
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Blindnessin Ancient Greek Myths; Chapter Twelve; Blindness as Punishment*; Part IV; BEING AND BEYOND; Chapter Thirteen; Light and Darknessand Archaic Greek Cosmography; Chapter Fourteen; Mystic Light and Near-Death Experience; Chapter Fifteen |
Dark-Winged Nyx and the Bright-Winged Eros in Aristophanes' "Orphic" CosmogonyThe Birds; Chapter Sixteen; The Bright Cypress of the "Orphic"Gold Tablets; Direction and Illuminationin Myths of the Underworld; Part V; CULT; Chapter Seventeen; Light and Darkness in DionysiacRituals as Illustrated on Attic Vase Paintings of the 5th Century BCE; Chapter Eighteen; Light and Lighting Equipment in the Eleusinian Mysteries; Symbolism and Ritual Use; Chapter Nineteen; Magic Lamps, Luminous Dreams; Lamps in PGM Recipes; Index; About the editors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture. With a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach, the book elucidates the light/darkness dichotomy in color semantics, appearance and concealment of divinities and creatures of darkness, the eye sight and the insight vision, and the role of the mystic or cultic. |
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