John Gould

Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange

Essays in Greek Literature and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How did Greek literature and cultural assumptions / world-view interact? John Gould examines ancient Greek ideas concerning myth, ritual, memory, and exchange. An overriding interest in anthropological fieldwork shapes his argument. The book contains the most significant essays (some now regarded as classics) written by one of the world's foremost experts in Greek mythology and culture over the last thirty years, including many previously unpublished papers. Newly revised, with reference both to corroborative material and to subsequent treatments and discussion of significantly different approaches to the same topics, these essays give the whole volume a marked coherence of focus and argument. Most of the essays arise out of the experience of teaching and address problems, puzzles, and misunderstandings encountered by students.

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The book contains the most significant essays--newly revised for this volume--written by one of the world's foremost experts in Greek mythology and culture over the last thirty years. These essays examine the myths, rituals, memory, and exchange of ancient Greeks with an overriding interest in anthropological field-work which helps to shape his argument.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780199265817
• ISBN-10: 019926581X
• Artikelnr.: 21643171

Autorenporträt

The late John Gould was Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Ancient Poetry and Modern Readers
* 2: Hiketeia
* 3: Dramatic Character and 'Human Intelligibility' in Greek Tragedy
* 4: Law, Custom, and Myth: Aspects of the Social Position of Women in
Classical Athens
* 5: Homeric Epic and the Tragic Moment
* 6: Tragedy in Performance
* 7: On Making Sense of Greek Religion
* 8: Mothers' Day: A Note on Euripides' Bacchae
* 9: The Language of Oedipus
* 10: Oedipus and Antigone at Thebes
* 11: Dionysus and the Hippy Convoy: Ritual, Myth, and Metaphor in the
Cult of Dionysus
* 12: Give and Take in Herodotus
* 13: Plato and Performance
* 14: '... And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Kings': Greek Tragic
Drama as Narrative
* 15: The Idea of Society in the Iliad
* 16: Herodotus and Religion
* 17: Tragedy and Collective Experience
* 18: Myth, Memory, and the Chorus: 'Tragic Rationality'
* Epimetrum: On the Nature of Collective Memory