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Record Nr.

UNISA996441548203316

Titolo

A companion to Greek mythology / / edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

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

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (615 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Disciplina

398.20938

Soggetti

Mythology, Greek

Greece Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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



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""