商品簡介
- 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
作者簡介
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.
目次
List of Maps.
List of Tables.
Notes on Contributors.
To the Reader.
Acknowledgements.
Glossary.
Abbreviations.
Approaching Myth: Thinking through myth - thinking myth through (Ken Dowden & Niall Livingstone).
Part 1 - Establishing the canon.
1.1 Homer's use of myth (Françoise Létoublon).
1.2 Telling the mythology: from Hesiod to the fifth century (Ken Dowden).
1.3 Orphic mythology (Radcliffe G. Edmonds III).
Part 2 - Myth performed, myth believed.
2.1 Singing myth: Pindar (Ian Rutherford).
2.2 Instructing myth: from Homer to the sophists (Niall Livingstone).
2.3 Acting myth: Athenian drama (Jean Alaux).
2.4 Displaying myth: the visual arts (Susan Woodford).
2.5 Platonic 'myths' (Penelope Murray).
2.6 Myth in history (Alan Griffiths).
Part 3 - New traditions.
3.1 Myth and Hellenic identities (Fritz Graf).
3.2 Names and places: myth in Alexandria (Anatole Mori).
3.3 The myth of Rome (Matthew Fox).
3.4 Displaying myth for Roman eyes (Zahra Newby).
3.5 The myth that saves: mysteries and mysteriosophies (Ken Dowden).
3.6 Myth and death: Roman mythological sarcophagi (Zahra Newby).
3.7 Myth in Christian authors (Fritz Graf).
Part 4 - Older traditions.
4.1 The Indo-European background to Greek mythology (Nicholas J. Allen).
4.2 Near Eastern mythologies (Alasdair Livingstone & Birgit Haskamp).
4.3 Underworlds in Greece and neighbouring cultures (Nanno Marinatos & Nicolas Wyatt).
Part 5 - Interpretation.
5.1 Interpreting images (Susan Woodford).
5.2 The myth of history: the case of Troy (Dieter Hertel).
5.3 Women and myth (Sian Lewis).
5.4 Mythology of the Black Land: Greek myths and Egyptian origins (Ian Rutherford).
5.5 Psychoanalysis: the wellspring of myth? (Richard Armstrong).
5.6 Initiation: the key to myth? (Ken Dowden).
5.7 The semiotics and pragmatics of myth (Claude Calame).
Part 6 - Conspectus.
6.1 A brief history of the study of Greek mythology (Jan N. Bremmer).
Guide to fragmentary and less easily found texts.
Bibliography.
Index of texts discussed.
Index of names.
Index of subjects.
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