The writing of Orpheus : Greek myth in cultural context / Marcel Detienne ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Detienne, Marcel.

Standardized Title:

Ecriture d'Orphee. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Greek.

Physical Description:

xv, 199 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-193) and index.

ISBN:

0801869544

OCLC:

48468746