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Zusatztext Review from previous edition invaluable collection of papers from a life's work at the cutting edge of literary interpretation ... There is a vast amount here to digest and reflect upon. Informationen zum Autor The late John Gould was Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol Klappentext The book contains the most significant essays--newly revised for this volume--written by one of the world's foremost experts in Greek mythology and culture over the last thirty years. These essays examine the myths! rituals! memory! and exchange of ancient Greeks with an overriding interest in anthropological field-work which helps to shape his argument. Zusammenfassung How did Greek literature and culture interact? John Gould was one of the greatest writers on Greek civiliation of his generation. The most significant of his many essays, including several previously unpublished, are revised and gathered here. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Ancient Poetry and Modern Readers 2: Hiketeia 3: Dramatic Character and 'Human Intelligibility' in Greek Tragedy 4: Law, Custom, and Myth: Aspects of the Social Position of Women in Classical Athens 5: Homeric Epic and the Tragic Moment 6: Tragedy in Performance 7: On Making Sense of Greek Religion 8: Mothers' Day: A Note on Euripides' Bacchae 9: The Language of Oedipus 10: Oedipus and Antigone at Thebes 11: Dionysus and the Hippy Convoy: Ritual, Myth, and Metaphor in the Cult of Dionysus 12: Give and Take in Herodotus 13: Plato and Performance 14: '... And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Kings': Greek Tragic Drama as Narrative 15: The Idea of Society in the Iliad 16: Herodotus and Religion 17: Tragedy and Collective Experience 18: Myth, Memory, and the Chorus: 'Tragic Rationality' Epimetrum: On the Nature of Collective Memory
