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A companion to Greek mythology /

140511178X (hardcover : alk. paper)

9781405111782 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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A companion to Greek mythology /

[Book]

edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone

Malden, MA :

Wiley-Blackwell,

2011

xxvii, 643 p. :

ill., maps ;

26 cm

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Includes bibliographical references and index

Approaching myth. Thinking through myth, thinking myth through / Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone -- Establishing the canon. Homer's use of myth / Françoise Létoublon -- Telling the mythology : from Hesiod to the fifth century / Ken Dowden -- Orphic mythology / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III -- Myth performed, myth believed. Singing myth : Pindar / Ian Rutherford -- Instructing myth : from Homer to the Sophists / Niall Livingstone -- Acting myth : Athenian drama / Jean Alaux -- Displaying myth : the visual arts / Susan Woodford -- Platonic 'myths' / Penelope Murray -- Myth in history / Alan Griffiths -- New traditions. Myth and Hellenic identities / Fritz Graf -- Names and places : myth in Alexandria / Anatole Mori -- The myth of Rome / Matthew Fox -- Displaying myth for Roman eyes / Zabra Newby -- The myth that saves : mysteries and mysteriosophies / Ken Dowden -- Myth and death : Roman mythological sarcophagi / Zabra Newby -- Myth in Christian authors / Fritz Graf -- Older traditions. The Indo-European background to Greek mythology / Nicholas J. Allen -- Near Eastern mythologies / Alasdair Livingstone and Birgit Haskamp -- Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek mythological conceptions of the beyond / Nanno Marinatos and Nicolas Wyatt -- Interpretation. Interpreting images : mysteries, mistakes, and misunderstandings / Susan Woodford -- The myth of history : the case of Troy / Dieter Hertel -- Women and myth / Sian Lewis -- Mythology of the black land : Greek myths and Egyptian origins / Ian Rutherford -- Psychoanalysis : the wellspring of myth? / Richard H. Armstrong -- Initiation : the key to myth? / Ken Dowden -- The semiotics and pragmatics of myth / Claude Calame, translated by Ken Dowden -- Conspectus. A brief history of the study of Greek mythology / Jan N. Bremmer

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Mythology, Greek

Greece, Religion

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Dowden, Ken,1950-

Livingstone, Niall

20120504105727.0

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