Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies

Dialogues and Discourses
Herausgeber: Sweeney, Naoise Mac; Sweeney, Naoíse Mac

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Produktbeschreibung

Naoise Mac Sweeney is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Leicester and author of Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780812246421
• ISBN-10: 081224642X
• Artikelnr.: 40921291

Autorenporträt

Edited by Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
—Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Chapter 1. Foreign Founders: Greeks and Hebrews
—Irad Malkin
Chapter 2. Oikist and Archegetes in Context: Representing the Foundation of
Sicilian Naxos
—Lieve Donnellan
Chapter 3. Who's the Daddy?: Contesting and Constructing Theseus' Paternity
in Fifth-Century Athens
—Susanne Turner
Chapter 4. The Founder's Shrine and the Foundation of Ai Khanoum
—Rachel Mairs
Chapter 5. Alexander, Agathos Daimon, and Ptolemy: The Alexandrian
Foundation Myth in Dialogue
—Daniel Ogden
Chapter 6. Figuring Rome's Foundation on the Iliac Tablets
—Michael Squire
Chapter 7. Beyond Greece and Rome: Foundation Myths on Tyrian Coinage in
the Third Century ad
—Alfred Hirt
Epilogue
—Robin Osborne
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments