LEADER 02779nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910783376703321 005 20230703230135.0 010 $a0-19-770430-1 010 $a1-280-44072-4 010 $a0-19-802316-2 010 $a1-4237-3695-8 010 $a1-60129-800-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000028608 035 $a(EBL)241327 035 $a(OCoLC)475956203 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107125 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11124944 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107125 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10013080 035 $a(PQKB)11008659 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL241327 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10086839 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL44072 035 $a(OCoLC)469372681 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC241327 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000028608 100 $a19900711d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAthenian myths and institutions $ewords in action /$fWm. Blake Tyrrell, Frieda S. Brown 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d1991. 215 $a1 online resource (240 pages) 311 0 $a0-19-506718-5 311 0 $a0-19-506719-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aThis 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 exemplif 606 $aMythology, Greek 607 $aAthens (Greece)$xReligion 607 $aAthens (Greece)$xCivilization 615 0$aMythology, Greek. 676 $a292.1/3 700 $aTyrrell$b William Blake$0292558 701 $aBrown$b Frieda S$0610498 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783376703321 996 $aAthenian myths and institutions$91117142 997 $aUNINA