A Companion to Greek Mythology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dowden, Ken; Livingstone, Niall

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks' contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. * Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts * Includes coverage of Greek myth's intersection with history, philosophy and religion * Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists * Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444396935
• Artikelnr.: 38305714

Autorenporträt

Ken Dowden is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Uses of Greek Mythology (1992), European Paganism (2000), and Zeus (2006). Niall Livingstone is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Isocrates' Busiris (2001) and, with Gideon Nisbet, a forthcoming book on Greek epigrams.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations List of tables Notes on contributors To the reader Acknowledgements Glossary Abbreviations Approaching myth Part 1
Establishing the canon Part 2
Myth performed, myth believed Part 3
New traditions Part 4
Older traditions Part 5
Interpretation Part 6
Conspectus

Rezensionen

"Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 November 2011)

"This collection of twenty eight articles on interpreting Greco-Roman culture presents a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to examining Greek mythology within the broader context of the intellectual and cultural development of the ancient world and provides an in depth discussion of the influence of traditional stories on the development of a shared historical culture." (Book News, 1 August 2011)