Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity

Zusatztext a very interesting and stimulating book that forces the reader to think Informationen zum Autor Greta Hawes received her PhD in Classics from the University of Bristol in 2011, where she also held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is now a lecturer at the Australian National University. Her current research project looks at myth and storytelling in Pausanias's Periegesis. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity charts ancient dissatisfaction with the excesses of myth, and the various attempts to cut these stories down to size by explaining them as misunderstood accounts of actual events. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1: Palaephatus. Peri Apiston 2: Heraclitus. Peri Apiston 3: Anonymous. Peri Apiston 4: Conon. Diegeseis 5: Plutarch. Life of Theseus 6: Pausanias. Periegesis Conclusion Appendix One: The date and authenticity of Palaephatus, Peri Apiston Appendix Two: Translation of Anonymous, Peri Apiston Bibliography

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• Authors: Greta Hawes, Greta (Lecturer in Classics and Ancient His Hawes, Hawes Greta
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2014
• EAN: 9780199672776
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967277-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Ancient, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient Greek religion and mythology