04056nam 2200601 450 991083033300332120230725061352.01-4443-9692-71-78268-690-81-283-40854-61-4443-3184-11-4443-9694-397866134085491-4443-9693-5(CKB)3710000000503731(EBL)4042041(MiAaPQ)EBC700473(MiAaPQ)EBC4042041(EXLCZ)99371000000050373120160107h20112011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierA companion to Greek mythology /edited by Ken Dowden and Niall LivingstoneChichester, [England] :Wiley-Blackwell,2011.©20111 online resource (615 p.)Blackwell Companions to the Ancient WorldDescription based upon print version of record.1-118-78516-9 1-4051-1178-X Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.""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""Blackwell companions to the ancient world.Mythology, GreekGreeceReligionMythology, Greek.398.20938Dowden Ken1950-Livingstone NiallMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910830333003321Companion to Greek mythology260032UNINA