Wandering Myths : Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World / / Edited by Lucy Audley-Miller and Beate Dignas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (liv, 427 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 292.1/3 |
Soggetto topico | Mythology, Greek |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cross-cultural approach
adaptation of myth mechanisms of dissemination transformation of heroes |
ISBN |
3-11-042151-8
3-11-042145-3 |
Classificazione | NH 5250 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World / Dignas, Beate / Audley-Miller, Lucy -- Introduction. Travelling Myths, Travelling Heroes / Fox, Robin Lane -- Part I: Changing Cultural and Mythical Landscapes in Anatolia -- Kingship in Heaven in Anatolia, Syria and Greece. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence / Rutherford, Ian -- Making Meaning of Myth. On the Interpretation of Mythological Imagery in the Polyxena Sarcophagus and the Kızılbel Tomb and the History of Achaemenid Asia Minor / Draycott, Catherine M. -- Myth, Memory and the Past. Wandering Heroes between Arcadia and Cyprus / Scheer, Tanja S. -- Part II: Reception and Innovation of Mythological Programmes between Greece and Italy -- From Mezntie to Mezentius? The Stratigraphy of a Myth in Etruria and Rome / de Grummond, Nancy T. -- Pots, Plots, and Performance. Comic and Tragic Iconography in Apulian Vase Painting / Giuliani, Luca -- Distributed Narrative. A Very Short History of Juxtaposing Myths on Pompeian Walls / Lorenz, Katharina -- No One is Immortal. From Exemplum Mortalitatis to Exemplum Virtutis / Borg, Barbara E. -- Attic Sarcophagi. Myth Selection and the Heroising Tradition / Ewald, B. C. -- Part III: Wandering East, Wandering South -- Gilgāmeš and Homer: The Missing Link? / West, Martin -- Myth, Memory, and Mimesis. The Inaros Cycle as Literature of Resistance / Sérida, Rana -- Death on the Nile: The Myth of Osiris and the Utility of History in Diodorus. Egypt In Greco-Roman Historiography / Pitcher, Luke -- Wandering Hero, Wandering Myths? The Image of Heracles in Iran / Wood, Rachel -- The Transformations of Achilles on Late Roman Mosaics in the East / Dunbabin, Katherine M. D. -- Epilogue / Parker, Robert -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796553803321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018] | ||
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Wandering Myths : Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World / / Edited by Lucy Audley-Miller and Beate Dignas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (liv, 427 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 292.1/3 |
Soggetto topico | Mythology, Greek |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cross-cultural approach
adaptation of myth mechanisms of dissemination transformation of heroes |
ISBN |
3-11-042151-8
3-11-042145-3 |
Classificazione | NH 5250 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World / Dignas, Beate / Audley-Miller, Lucy -- Introduction. Travelling Myths, Travelling Heroes / Fox, Robin Lane -- Part I: Changing Cultural and Mythical Landscapes in Anatolia -- Kingship in Heaven in Anatolia, Syria and Greece. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence / Rutherford, Ian -- Making Meaning of Myth. On the Interpretation of Mythological Imagery in the Polyxena Sarcophagus and the Kızılbel Tomb and the History of Achaemenid Asia Minor / Draycott, Catherine M. -- Myth, Memory and the Past. Wandering Heroes between Arcadia and Cyprus / Scheer, Tanja S. -- Part II: Reception and Innovation of Mythological Programmes between Greece and Italy -- From Mezntie to Mezentius? The Stratigraphy of a Myth in Etruria and Rome / de Grummond, Nancy T. -- Pots, Plots, and Performance. Comic and Tragic Iconography in Apulian Vase Painting / Giuliani, Luca -- Distributed Narrative. A Very Short History of Juxtaposing Myths on Pompeian Walls / Lorenz, Katharina -- No One is Immortal. From Exemplum Mortalitatis to Exemplum Virtutis / Borg, Barbara E. -- Attic Sarcophagi. Myth Selection and the Heroising Tradition / Ewald, B. C. -- Part III: Wandering East, Wandering South -- Gilgāmeš and Homer: The Missing Link? / West, Martin -- Myth, Memory, and Mimesis. The Inaros Cycle as Literature of Resistance / Sérida, Rana -- Death on the Nile: The Myth of Osiris and the Utility of History in Diodorus. Egypt In Greco-Roman Historiography / Pitcher, Luke -- Wandering Hero, Wandering Myths? The Image of Heracles in Iran / Wood, Rachel -- The Transformations of Achilles on Late Roman Mosaics in the East / Dunbabin, Katherine M. D. -- Epilogue / Parker, Robert -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818697503321 |
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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