Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion / edited by Menelaos Christopoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christopoulos, Menelaos, 1956-

Karakantza, E. D. (Euphēmia D.)

Levaniouk, Olga, 1971-

Series:

Greek studies

Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Light and darkness in literature.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Mythology, Greek.

Light--Religious aspects.

Light.

Physical Description:

xx, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2010]

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names / Richard Buxton

Dark skin and dark deeds: Danaides and Aigyptioi in a culture of light / Efimia D. Karakantza

Brightness and darkness in Pindar's Pythian 3: Aigla-Koronis-Arsinoë and her coming of age / Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos

S-light anomaly: dark brightness in Euripides' Medea / Spyros Syropoulos

The light imagery of divine manifestation in Homer / Soteroula Constantinidou

Trojan night / Ken Dowden

Tithonus and Phaon: mythical allegories of light and darkness in Sappho's poetry / Avgi-Anna Maggel

Erinyes as creatures of darkness / Mercedes Aguirre

Journey into light and honors in darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus / Sebastian Anderson

Hephaestus in Homer's epics: god of fire, god of life / Isabelle Ratinaud-Lachkar

To see or not to see: blind people and blindness in ancient Greek myths / Françoise Létoublon

Blindness as punishment / Ariadni Tatti-Gartziou

Light and darkness and archaic Greek cosmography / Nanno Marinatos

Mystic light and near-death experience / Richard Seaford

Dark-winged Nyx and bright-winged Eros in Aristophanes' Orphic cosmogony: The birds / Menelaos Christopoulos

The bright cypress of the orphic golden tablets: direction and illumination in myths of the underworld / Radcliffe G. Edmonds

Light and darkness in Dionysiac rituals as illustrated on attic vase paintings of the 5th century BCE / Dimitris Paleothodoros

Light and lighting equipment in the Eleusinian mysteries: symbolism and ritual use / Ioanna Patera

Magic lamps, luminous dreams: lamps in PGM recipes / Athanassia Zografou.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739138984

0739138987

9780739139011

0739139010

OCLC:

610018907