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The writing of Orpheus : Greek myth in cultural context
- Title
- The writing of Orpheus : Greek myth in cultural context / Marcel Detienne ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
- Author
- Detienne, Marcel.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, c2003.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 03-2621 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 199 p.; 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Ecriture d'Orphee. English
- Alternative Title
- Ecriture d'Orphee.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index.
- Contents
- The genealogy of a body of thought -- What the Greeks called "myth" -- Mythology, writing, and forms of historicity -- The practices of myth-analysis -- The Danaids among themselves : Marriage founded upon violence -- A kitchen garden for women, or how to engender on one's own -- Misogynous Hestia, or the city in its autonomy -- Even talk is in some ways divine -- An ephebe and an olive tree -- The crane and the labyrinth -- The finger of Orestes -- At Lycaon's table -- An inventive writing, the voice of Orpheus, and the games of Palamedes -- The double writing of mythology (between the Timaeus and the Critias) -- Orpheus rewrites the city gods.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-2621
- ISBN
- 0801869544 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001006673
- OCLC
- 48468746
- Author
- Detienne, Marcel.
- Title
- The writing of Orpheus : Greek myth in cultural context / Marcel Detienne ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
- Imprint
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-2621