02779nam 2200613Ia 450 991078337670332120230703230135.00-19-770430-11-280-44072-40-19-802316-21-4237-3695-81-60129-800-5(CKB)1000000000028608(EBL)241327(OCoLC)475956203(SSID)ssj0000107125(PQKBManifestationID)11124944(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107125(PQKBWorkID)10013080(PQKB)11008659(Au-PeEL)EBL241327(CaPaEBR)ebr10086839(CaONFJC)MIL44072(OCoLC)469372681(MiAaPQ)EBC241327(EXLCZ)99100000000002860819900711d1991 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAthenian myths and institutions words in action /Wm. Blake Tyrrell, Frieda S. BrownNew York :Oxford University Press,1991.1 online resource (240 pages)0-19-506718-5 0-19-506719-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.Contents; One: Introduction: Myths as Words in Action; Two: Hesiod's Myth of the Birth of the Cosmos; Three: The Arete Standard as a Source of Mythmaking; Four: The Ideology of Sacrifice in Mythmaking; Five: Patriarchal Mythmaking on Marriage; Six: Myths and Citizenship; Seven: Theseus and the Parthenon as Mythic Propaganda; Eight: Funeral Orations in Mythmaking Athens; Bibliography; IndexThis book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them. In particular, it examines how myths encode thoughts on ritual, the code of the warrior, marriage, and politics. Combining traditional historical and literary criticism with the approaches of anthropologists, feminist critics, and cultural historians, the authors study specific examples of the epic and tragedy, as well as funeral orations and the Parthenon marbles, to illuminate the ways mythic media exploited the beliefs, concepts, and practices of fifth-century Athens, simultaneously exemplifMythology, GreekAthens (Greece)ReligionAthens (Greece)CivilizationMythology, Greek.292.1/3Tyrrell William Blake292558Brown Frieda S610498MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783376703321Athenian myths and institutions1117142UNINA