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Titolo: | Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Menelaos Christopoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (576 p.) |
Disciplina: | 292.08 |
Soggetto topico: | Greek literature - History and criticism |
Light and darkness in literature | |
Mythology, Greek, in literature | |
Mythology, Greek | |
Light - Religious aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | ChristopoulosMenelaos KarakantzaE. D (Euphēmia D.) LevanioukOlga <1971-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Preface; 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-Arsinoë 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 |
Mythical 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 | |
Dark-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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Light 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion |
ISBN: | 1-282-92180-0 |
9786612921803 | |
0-7391-3901-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459470403321 |
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