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UNISA996441548203316 |
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Titolo |
A companion to Greek mythology / / edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone |
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Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-4443-9692-7 |
1-78268-690-8 |
1-283-40854-6 |
1-4443-3184-1 |
1-4443-9694-3 |
9786613408549 |
1-4443-9693-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (615 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mythology, Greek |
Greece Religion |
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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 at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Series page""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Illustrations""; ""Maps""; ""Tables""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""To the Reader""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Glossary""; ""Abbreviations""; ""APPROACHING MYTH""; ""CHAPTER ONE: Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through""; ""Mythology as System""; ""Mythology as History""; ""Local Mythology, National Mythology, Inherited Mythology""; ""Borrowed Mythology""; ""The Implementation of Mythology""; ""The Problem of Rome""; ""Religious Change""; ""Myth and the Moderns""; ""Omissions and Controversies""; ""PART I ESTABLISHING THE CANON"" |
""CHAPTER TWO: Homer's Use of Myth""""Epic and Mythology""; ""Cosmogony and Beginnings""; ""Preliminaries to the Trojan War""; ""The Trojan War Itself""; ""Other Myths""; ""Uses of Myth in Homer""; ""The Complexity of Myth""; ""CHAPTER THREE: Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century""; ""Introduction: Mythology and |
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Mythography""; ""Hesiod and 'Hesiod' (seventh-sixth centuries BC)""; ""Other Poets of the Seventh-Sixth Centuries BC""; ""The Prose Tradition, Fifth Century BC""; ""Conclusion: Apollodoros, The Library""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: Orphic Mythology""; ""What Orphic Mythology?"" |
""The 'Author' and His (Strange) Work""""The Myths of Orpheus""; ""Cosmogony""; ""The Poetry of Ritual""; ""The Life of Orpheus""; ""Conclusion""; ""PART II MYTH PERFORMED, MYTH BELIEVED""; ""CHAPTER FIVE: Singing Myth: Pindar""; ""Myth in Choral Song""; ""Functions of Myth in Choral Song""; ""Innovation""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER SIX: Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists""; ""Instructive Functions of Myth""; ""Mythic Paradeigmata in Homeric Epic""; ""Hesiod""; ""Philosophical Critique and Adaptation of Myth""; ""Myth and Praise: Pindar and Isocrates"" |
""Myth in Teaching: Mythological Epideictic""""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN: Acting Myth: Athenian Drama""; ""Introduction: Myth and Theatre""; ""The Choice of Subjects""; ""Dramatic Motifs""; ""Key Topics and Issues""; ""Variation, Invention, Parody""; ""Myth in the Theatre: A Prism and Not a Mirror""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT: Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts""; ""Identifying Myth""; ""Myths in Architectural Sculpture""; ""Statues of the God within the Temple""; ""Literary Accounts of Mythical Representations Now Lost""; ""The Evidence from Vase Painting"" |
""Myth as Stand-in for History"" |
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