Research Catalog

Title

A companion to Greek mythology / edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Dowden, Ken, 1950-
• Livingstone, Niall.

Description

xxvii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Alternative Title

Greek mythology

Subject

• Mythology, Greek
• Religion
• Greece > Religion
• Greece

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-603) and indexes.

Contents

Approaching myth. -- Thinking through myth, thinking myth through / Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone. -- pt. 1. Establishing the canon. -- Homer's use of myth / Françoise Létoublon -- Telling the mythology : from Hesiod to the fifth century / Ken Dowden -- Orphic mythology / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III. -- pt. 2. Myth performed, myth believed. -- Singing myth : Pindar / Ian Rutherford -- Instructing myth : from Homer to the Sophists / Niall Livingstone -- Acting myth : Athenian drama / Jean Alaux -- Displaying myth : the visual arts / Susan Woodford -- Platonic 'myths' / Penelope Murray -- Myth in history / Alan Griffiths. -- pt. 3. New traditions. -- Myth and Hellenic identities / Fritz Graf -- Names and places : myth in Alexandria / Anatole Mori -- The myth of Rome / Matthew Fox -- Displaying myth for Roman eyes / Zahra Newby -- The myth that saves : mysteries and mysteriosophies / Ken Dowden -- Myth and death : Roman mythological sarcophagi / Zahra Newby -- Myth in Christian authors / Fritz Graf. -- pt. 4. Older traditions. The Indo-European background to Greek mythology / Nicholas J. Allen -- Near Eastern mythologies / Alasdair Livingstone and Birgit Haskamp -- Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek mythological conceptions of the beyond / Nanno Marinatos and Nicolas Wyatt. -- pt. 5. Interpretation. -- Interpreting images : mysteries, mistakes, and misunderstandings / Susan Woodford -- The myth of history : the case of Troy / Dieter Hertel -- Women and myth / Sian Lewis -- Mythology of the black land : Greek myths and Egyptian origins / Ian Rutherford -- Psychoanalysis : the wellspring of myth? / Richard H. Armstrong -- Initiation : the key to myth? / Ken Dowden -- The semiotics and pragmatics of myth / Claude Calame, translated by Ken Dowden. -- pt. 6. Conspectus. -- A brief history of the study of Greek mythology / Jan N. Bremmer.

Call Number

BL783

ISBN

• 9781405111782 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 140511178X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010041346

OCLC

667213249

Title

A companion to Greek mythology / edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone.

Imprint

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-603) and indexes.

Added Author

Dowden, Ken, 1950-

Livingstone, Niall.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR BL783 .C66 2011