Roger Woodard (ed.)

Camb Comp Greek Mythology

Herausgeber: Woodard, Roger D.

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Produktbeschreibung

Woodard presents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of ancient Greek mythic tradition. Divided into three sections, the work consists of sixteen original articles by some of the world's most distinguished scholars of classical mythology. Section one provides readers with an examination of the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written literature from the epic poetry of the eighth century BC to the mythographic catalogues of the early centuries AD. Section two looks at the relationship between myth, religion, art, and politics among the Greeks and at the Roman appropriation of Greek mythic tradition. The reception of Greek myth from the Middle Ages to modernity rounds out section three. This Companion is a unique resource that will be of interest and value not only to undergraduate and graduate students and professional scholars, but to anyone interested in the myths of the ancient Greeks and their impact on western tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 570
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 968g
• ISBN-13: 9780521845205
• ISBN-10: 0521845203
• Artikelnr.: 22745579

Autorenporträt

Roger Woodard is the Andrew V.V. Raymond Professor of the Classics and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York). He has taught in the United States and Europe and is the author of a number of books in myth and ancient civilization, most recently Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult. Dr. Woodard is editor of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, which received a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Muthoi in continuity and variation Roger D. Woodard
Part I. Sources and Interpretations: 1. Lyric and Greek myth Gregory Nagy
2. Homer and Greek myth Gregory Nagy
3. Hesiod and Greek myth Roger D. Woodard
4. Tragedy and Greek myth Richard Buxton
5. Aristophanes and Greek myth Angus Bowie
6. Plato and Greek myth Diskin Clay
7. Hellenistic mythographers Carolyn Higbie
Part II. Response, Integration, Representation: 8. Greek myth and Greek religion Claude Calame
9. Myth in Greek art and architecture Jenifer Neils
10. The landscapes of Greek myth Ada Cohen
11. Politics and Greek myth Jonathan M. Hall
12. Ovid and Greek myth A. J. Boyle
Part III. Reception: 13. Women and Greek myth Vanda Zajko
14. Greek myth in medieval and renaissance literature H. David Brumble
15. Greek myth in English and American literature Sarah Anne Brown
16. Greek myth on the screen Martin M. Winkler.