LEADER 04490nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910960365403321 005 20240513131314.0 010 $a979-82-16-20989-8 010 $a1-282-92180-0 010 $a9786612921803 010 $a0-7391-3901-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000059662 035 $a(EBL)634246 035 $a(OCoLC)699511233 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000439017 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12175298 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439017 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10460966 035 $a(PQKB)11224167 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL634246 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10435040 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL292180 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC634246 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000059662 100 $a20100416d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLight and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion /$fedited by Menelaos Christopoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, MD $cLexington Books$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (576 p.) 225 1 $aGreek studies: interdisciplinary approaches 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-7391-3898-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface; Introduction; Part I; COLOR SEMANTICS; Chapter One; The Significance (or Insignificance) of Blackness in Mythological Names; Chapter Two; Dark Skin and Dark Deeds; Danaids and Aigyptioi in a Culture of Light; Chapter Three; Brightness and Darkness inPindar's Pythian 3; Aigla-Koronis-Arsinoe? and Her Coming of Age; Chapter Four; S-light Anomaly; Dark Brightness in Euripides' Medea; Part II; APPEARANCE AND CONCEALMENT; Chapter Five; The Light Imagery of Divine Manifestation in Homer1; Chapter Six; Trojan Night; Chapter Seven; Tithonus and Phaon 327 $aMythical Allegories of Light and Darkness in Sappho's PoetryChapter Eight; Erinyes as Creatures of Darkness; Chapter Nine; Journey into Light and Honors in Darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus1; Chapter Ten; Hephaestus in Homer's Epics1; God of Fire, God of Life; Part III; EYE-SIGHT/INSIGHT; Chapter Eleven; To See or Not to See; Blind People and Blindnessin Ancient Greek Myths; Chapter Twelve; Blindness as Punishment*; Part IV; BEING AND BEYOND; Chapter Thirteen; Light and Darknessand Archaic Greek Cosmography; Chapter Fourteen; Mystic Light and Near-Death Experience; Chapter Fifteen 327 $aDark-Winged Nyx and the Bright-Winged Eros in Aristophanes' "Orphic" CosmogonyThe Birds; Chapter Sixteen; The Bright Cypress of the "Orphic"Gold Tablets; Direction and Illuminationin Myths of the Underworld; Part V; CULT; Chapter Seventeen; Light and Darkness in DionysiacRituals as Illustrated on Attic Vase Paintings of the 5th Century BCE; Chapter Eighteen; Light and Lighting Equipment in the Eleusinian Mysteries; Symbolism and Ritual Use; Chapter Nineteen; Magic Lamps, Luminous Dreams; Lamps in PGM Recipes; Index; About the editors 330 $aLight and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture. With a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach, the book elucidates the light/darkness dichotomy in color semantics, appearance and concealment of divinities and creatures of darkness, the eye sight and the insight vision, and the role of the mystic or cultic. 410 0$aGreek studies. 606 $aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLight and darkness in literature 606 $aMythology, Greek, in literature 606 $aMythology, Greek 606 $aLight$xReligious aspects 615 0$aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLight and darkness in literature. 615 0$aMythology, Greek, in literature. 615 0$aMythology, Greek. 615 0$aLight$xReligious aspects. 676 $a292.08 701 $aChristopoulos$b Menelaos$01844149 701 $aKarakantza$b E. D$g(Euphe?mia D.)$01328041 701 $aLevaniouk$b Olga$f1971-$01844150 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960365403321 996 $aLight and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion$94426383 997 $aUNINA