A companion to Greek mythology / / edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone
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| Titolo: |
A companion to Greek mythology / / edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011 |
| ©2011 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (615 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 398.20938 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mythology, Greek |
| Soggetto geografico: | Greece Religion |
| Persona (resp. second.): | DowdenKen <1950-> |
| LivingstoneNiall | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Companion to Greek mythology |
| ISBN: | 1-4443-9692-7 |
| 1-78268-690-8 | |
| 1-283-40854-6 | |
| 1-4443-3184-1 | |
| 1-4443-9694-3 | |
| 9786613408549 | |
| 1-4443-9693-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910830333003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Blackwell companions to the ancient world.