عنوان

Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion

eng grc

Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion

Lanham, Md

Lexington Books

Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches

Includes bibliographical references and index

edited by Menelaos Christopoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk

Preface -- Introduction -- The significance )or insignificance( of blackness in mythological names / Richard Buxton -- Dark skin and dark deeds: Danaides and Aigyptioi in a culture of light / Efimia D. Karakantza -- Brightness and darkness in Pindar's Pythian 3: Aigla - Koronis - Arsinoe and her coming of age / Evanthia Tsitsibakou - Vasalos -- S - light anomaly: dark brightness in Euripides' Medea / Spyros Syropoulos -- The light imagery of divine manifestation in Homer / Soteroula Constantinidou -- Trojan night / Ken Dowden -- Tithonus and Phaon: mythical allegories of light and darkness in Sappho's poetry / Avgi - Anna Maggel -- Erinyes as creatures of darkness / Mercedes Aguirre -- Journey into light and honors in darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus / Sebastian Anderson -- Hephaestus in Homer's epics: god of fire, god of life / Isabelle Ratinaud - Lachkar -- To see or not to see: blind people and blindness in ancient Greek myths / Francoise Letoublon -- Blindness as punishment / Ariadni Tatti - Gartziou -- Light and darkness and archaic Greek cosmography / Nanno Marinatos -- Mystic light and near - death experience / Richard Seaford -- Dark - winged Nyx and bright - winged Eros in Aristophanes' Orphic cosmogony: The birds / Menelaos Christopoulos -- The bright cypress of the orphic golden tablets: direction and illumination in myths of the underworld / Radcliffe G. Edmonds -- Light and darkness in Dionysiac rituals as illustrated on attic vase paintings of the 5th century BCE / Dimitris Paleothodoros -- Light and lighting equipment in the Eleusinian mysteries: symbolism and ritual use / Ioanna Patera -- Magic lamps, luminous dreams: lamps in PGM recipes / Athanassia Zografou

History and criticism ، Greek literature

، Light and darkness in literature

، Mythology, Greek, in literature

، Mythology, Greek

Religious aspects ، Light

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AU Christopoulos, Menelaos

AU Karakantza, E. D.)Euphemia D.(

AU Levaniouk, Olga 1971-

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SE Greek studies