John Gould

Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange

Essays in Greek Literature and Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 148mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9780198152996
• ISBN-10: 019815299X
• Artikelnr.: 22024650

Autorenporträt

One of the world's leading experts in the field - a very big fish!

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