Prometheus

Zusatztext '[Prometheus] is perhaps the hardest figure ... to get a purchase on! but Carol Dougherty admirably describes his infinite variety.' - The Anglo-Hellenic Review"An excellent starting point for further research on the subject."-Oxford Bibliographies Online Informationen zum Autor Carol Dougherty Klappentext Offering a comparative approach, including visual material and film, this much-needed book provides an essential introduction to the Promethean myth and locates the nature of this compelling tale's continuing relevance through history, from its origins in ancient Greece, to its appearance in Romantic age works and twentieth-century films. Zusammenfassung Offering a comparative approach, including visual material and film, this much-needed book provides an essential introduction to the Promethean myth and locates the nature of this compelling tale's continuing relevance through history, from its origins in ancient Greece, to its appearance in Romantic age works and twentieth-century films. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Why Prometheus? 1. Prometheus the Trickster, or the Archaic Prometheus 2. The Cult of Prometheus at Athens, or Prometheus and Fire 3. Prometheus, Political Rebel and Cultural Hero, or The Classical Prometheus 4. The Romantic Prometheus 5. The Modern Prometheus. Works Cited

Product details

• Authors: Carol (Wellesley College Dougherty, Carol Dougherty, C. Dougherty, Dougherty Carol
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 13.12.2005
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society
• EAN: 9780415324069
• ISBN: 978-0-415-32406-9
• Pages: 176
• Series: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World; Gods and Heroes of the Ancient; Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
• Subjects: HISTORY / Civilization, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, myth reinterpretation in Western thought, cultural adaptation theory