Approaches to Greek Myth

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1419-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Now thoroughly revised and updated, this volume offers a variety of historical, comparative, and theoretical perspectives on Greek myth.

Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from its context? What did myths mean to ancient Greeks and what do they mean today?

Here, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether exploring myth from a historical, comparative, or theoretical perspective, each contributor lucidly describes a particular approach, applies it to one or more myths, and reflects on what the approach yields that others do not. Edmunds's new general and chapter-level introductions recontextualize these essays and also touch on recent developments in scholarship in the interpretation of Greek myth.

Contributors are Jordi Pàmias, on the reception of Greek myth through history; H. S. Versnel, on the intersections of myth and ritual; Carolina López-Ruiz, on the near Eastern contexts; Joseph Falaky Nagy, on Indo-European structure in Greek myth; William Hansen, on myth and folklore; Claude Calame, on the application of semiotic theory of narrative; Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, on reading visual sources such as vase paintings; and Robert A. Segal, on psychoanalytic interpretations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmunds, Lowell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
General Introductions
Chapter 1. The Reception of Greek Myth
Chapter 2. What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander: Myth and Ritual, Old and New
Chapter 3. Greek and Near Easter Mythologies: A Story of Mediterranean
Chapter 4. Hierarchy, Heroes, and Heads: Indo-European Structures in Greek Myth
Chapter 5. Odysseus and the Oar: A Comparative Approach to a Greek Legend
Chapter 6. Narrative Semantics and Pragmatics: The Poetic Creation of Cyrene
Chapter 7. Mythis in Images: Theseus and Medea as a Case Study
Chapter 8. Greek Myth and Psychoanalysis
Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edmunds, Lowell
Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.