Writing down the myths / edited by Joseph Falaky Nagy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nagy, Joseph Falaky, editor.

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Series:

Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 17.

Cursor mundi ; volume 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and myth--History.

Literature and myth.

Myth--History.

Myth.

Mythologists--History.

Mythologists.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2013]

Contents:

Are myths inside the text or outside the box? / Joseph Falaky Nagy

Packaging Greek mythology / William Hansen

The 'myth before the myth began' / Richard Martin

Starving the slender muse : identity, mythography, and intertextuality in Ovid's Ibis / Darcy Krasne

Medieval Latin mythography as death and resurrection of myth / Jan Ziolkowski

Dead men don't wear plaid : Celtic myth and Christian creed in medieval Irish concepts of the afterlife / Bernhard Maier

Vessels of myth / Kimberly Ball

'Venerable relics'? Re-visiting the Mabinogi / Sioned Davies

Caesar's sword, proud Britons, and Galfridian myths of discontinuity / Katherine McLoone

Snorri Sturluson and the construction of Norse mythography / Margaret Clunies Ross

Thor and the Midgard Serpent : whom should we read, Snorri or Finnnur? / Gísli Sigurðsson

Some thoughts on Saxo's euhemerism / John Lindow

Motivations for Hittite mythological texts / H. Craig Melchert

India and the graphy o'myth / Stephanie W. Jamison

Myth and counter-myth in early modern Japan / William M. Bodiford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

2503542182

9782503542188

OCLC:

852707384

Publisher Number:

99955578190