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A companion to Greek mythology
- 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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- 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
- 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 cultureBlackwell 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