Athenian Myths and Institutions - Words in Action

Zusatztext `This work will be of interest to students and scholars of the classics! anthropology! cultural history! and gender studies'History Klappentext This book provides an introduction to the critical interpretation of Athenian myths. It does not retell the various myths under consideration, but rather examines the myths from a variety of perspectives, including the traditional historical and literary-critical interpretations, as well as the more modern approaches of anthropologists, feminist critics, and in particular, the work of the French structuralists Jean-Pierre Vernant, Marcel Detienne, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Zusammenfassung This book provides an introduction to the critical interpretation of Athenian myths. It does not retell the various myths under consideration, but rather examines the myths from a variety of perspectives, including the traditional historical and literary-critical interpretations, as well as the more modern approaches of anthropologists, feminist critics, and in particular, the work of the French structuralists Jean-Pierre Vernant, Marcel Detienne, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

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• Authors: Frieda S. Brown, Frieda S. (Professor of French Brown, Brown Frieda S., William Blake Tyrrell, William Blake Brown Tyrrell, Wm Blake Tyrrell, Wm Blake (Professor of Classics) Tyrrell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.1991
• EAN: 9780195067194
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506719-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Folklore studies / Study of myth