عنوان

Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng grc

Title Proper

Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lanham, Md

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Lexington Books

Other Title Information

Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

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

Text of Note

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

Entry Element

History and criticism ، Greek literature

Entry Element

، Light and darkness in literature

Entry Element

، Mythology, Greek, in literature

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، Mythology, Greek

Entry Element

Religious aspects ، Light

Class number

Relator Code

TI

AU Christopoulos, Menelaos

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

AU Levaniouk, Olga 1971-

SE

SE Greek studies