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Informationen zum Autor Ken Dowden is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Uses of Greek Mythology (1992), European Paganism (2000), and Zeus (2006). Niall Livingstone is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Isocrates' Busiris (2001) and, with Gideon Nisbet, a forthcoming book on Greek epigrams. Klappentext A Companion to Greek Mythology approaches the richly diverse phenomenon of Greek myth from a distinctive new angle -- one that delves deeply into its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks' contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours. Contributions from a team of international experts trace the development of Greek myth into a shared language, heritage, and way of thinking throughout the entire Greco-Roman world. Individual essays address such topics as how myths were presented in stories, poems, dramas and all forms of visual art, as well as the role of myth in philosophy, learning, religion, mystery-cult, and Greek self identity. Other essays explore contemporary reception of Greek myth and the potential of modern theoretical approaches. A Companion to Greek Mythology offers invaluable insights into the ancient world that will help to shape our understanding of the wide ranging appeal and influence of Greek myth across the ages. Zusammenfassung A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations viii List of Maps xi List of Tables xii Notes on Contributors xiii To the Reader xviii Acknowledgements xxi Glossary xxii Abbreviations xxv Approaching Myth 1 1 Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through 3 Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone Part I Establishing the Canon 25 2 Homer's Use of Myth 27 Françoise Létoublon 3 Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century 47 Ken Dowden 4 Orphic Mythology 73 Radcliffe G. Edmonds iii Part II Myth Performed, Myth Believed 107 5 Singing Myth: Pindar 109 Ian Rutherford 6 Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists 125 Niall Livingstone 7 Acting Myth: Athenian Drama 141 Jean Alaux 8 Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts 157 Susan Woodford 9 Platonic 'Myths' 179 Penelope Murray 10 Myth in History 195 Alan Griffiths Part III New Traditions 209 11 Myth and Hellenic Identities 211 Fritz Graf 12 Names and Places: Myth in Alexandria 227 Anatole Mori 13 The Myth of Rome 243 Matthew Fox 14 Displaying Myth for Roman Eyes 265 Zahra Newby 15 The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies 283 Ken Dowden 16 Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi 301 Zahra Newby 17 Myth in Christian Authors 319 Fritz Graf Part IV Older Traditions 339 18 The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology 341 Nicholas J. Allen 19 Near Eastern Mythologies 357 Alasdair Livingstone and Birgit Haskamp 20 Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond 383 Nanno Marinatos and Nicolas Wyatt<...
List of contents
List of illustrations
List of tables
Notes on contributors
To the reader
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Abbreviations
Approaching myth
Part 1 - Establishing the canon
Part 2 - Myth performed, myth believed
Part 3 - New traditions
Part 4 - Older traditions
Part 5 - Interpretation
Part 6 - Conspectus
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"Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 November 2011)
"This collection of twenty eight articles on interpreting Greco-Roman culture presents a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to examining Greek mythology within the broader context of the intellectual and cultural development of the ancient world and provides an in depth discussion of the influence of traditional stories on the development of a shared historical culture." (Book News, 1 August 2011)
