Myth and history, close encounters / edited by Menelaos Christopoulos, Athina Papachrysostomou, Andreas P. Antonopoulos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Papachrysostomou, Athina, editor.

Antonopoulos, Andreas P., editor.

Christopoulos, Menelaos, editor.

Series:

MythosEikonPoiesis

MythosEikonPoiesis ; v.14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient.

Mythology, Classical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

This series is dedicated to classical studies in general. The featured essays primarily examine topics relating to the ancient world from the fields of literary, visual, media, theatre, religious, and cultural studies. There is a particular emphasis on the application of modern theories, e.g. in the sphere of anthropology, performativity and narrativity; interdisciplinary comparisons; the mythical/ritual and iconic poetics of texts and images; and the reception of classical material in this context.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Part I: Epos

Historicizing Homer's Myth in the Homeric Epigrams

The Aristotelian Constitution of the Ithacans and Homero-Cyclic Reception of the Odyssey

"Let Me Tell You an Ancient Deed of the Distant Past": The Epic Hero as a 'Historian'

Authority, Power and Governability in the Odyssey: The Mythical Birth of the Polis

Part II: Lyric Poetry

Domestic and Political Order in the 'Foundation Myths' of Partheneia

Myth, Memory and a Massacre on the Road to Dodona: Reinterpreting an Elegiac Lament from Archaic Ambracia (SEG 41.540A)

Part III: Historiography

Shaping History: The Case of the Tyrannicides and the Marathonomachoi

The Myth of Troy Turned into History: Thucydides' Archaeology

The Argive Women, Beards and Democracy

Seeking Agariste

The Herodotean Myth on the Origin of the Scythians

Part IV: Drama

(Re)writing a Sicilian Myth: The Palici and Aeschylus' Aitnaiai

"To Be Buried or Not to Be Buried?" Necropolitics in Athenian History and Sophocles' Antigone

Sophocles' Trachiniae and the Peloponnesian War: A New Perspective

The Authority of 'History' in the Exodus of Sophocles' Trachiniae

Nectanebo II and Philip II in Mythic Disguise: Comedy's Burlesque of History

Part V: Loci and Tempora

The Myth of Opheltes at Nemea in the Context of Rivalry in the Archaic Peloponnese

Marginal Remarks on the Concept of 'Time of Origins' in Classical Greek Culture

Myth and History in the Court of Archelaus

Part VI: Roman Era and Late Antiquity

"Oceans Rise, Empires Fall": Cyclical Time and History in Seneca's Quaestiones Naturales 3

Herodotus' Phoenix between Hesiod and Papyrus Harris 500, and Its Legacy in Tacitus

Empire, Ethnicity, Exegesis: Lucian on Interpretations of Greek Myth in the Roman Mediterranean.

Myth and History in Libanius' Imperial Speeches

Myth and Levels of Language in the Octavia

Appendix

The Editors

The Contributors

Index Rerum et Nominum Notabiliorum.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Christopoulos, Menelaos Myth and History: Close Encounters

ISBN:

3-11-078011-9