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A companion to Greek mythology / edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone.
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- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology, Greek.
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 643 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Approaching Myth. Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through / Ken Dowden, Niall Livingstone
- Establishing the Canon. Homer's Use of Myth / Fraṅoise Ľtoublon
- Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century / Ken Dowden
- Orphic Mythology / Radcliffe G Edmonds
- 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 ₁Myths₂ / Penelope Murray
- Myth in History / Alan Griffiths
- 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
- Older Traditions. The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology / Nicholas J Allen
- Near Eastern Mythologies / Alasdair Livingstone, Birgit Haskamp
- Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond / Nanno Marinatos, Nicolas Wyatt
- 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, Ken Dowden
- Conspectus. A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology / Jan N Bremmer
- Bibliography
- Index of Texts Discussed
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: A companion to Greek mythology.
- ISBN:
- 1444396943
- 9781444396942
- Publisher Number:
- 99947673195
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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