Ancient Greek religion and mythology Books
Oxford University Press Inc Helen of Troy
Book SynopsisAncient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man''s name through reproduction; yet it also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. The myth of Helen is the central site in which the ancient Greeks expressed and reworked their culture''s anxieties about erotic desire. Despite the passage of three millennia, contemporary culture remains almost obsessively preoccupied with all the power and danger of female beauty and sexuality that Helen still represents. Yet Helen, the embodiment of these concerns for our purported cultural ancestors, has been little studied from this perspective. Such issues are also central to contemporary feminist thought. Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that botTrade Reviewthe book is a good survey of Helen in Greek literature and a decent introduction to Helen for undergraduate Classics students, but is a bit thin for those seeking more advanced, in-depth analysis. * Stephanie L. Budin, Collingswood, New Jersey, Journal of the American Oriental Society *Table of ContentsIllustrations ; Preface ; 1. The Problem of Female Beauty ; 2. Helen, Daughter of Zeus ; 3. Self-Blame and Self-Assertion: the Iliad ; 4. Happily Ever After? The Odyssey ; 5. Refractions of Homer's Helen: Archaic Lyric ; 6. Behind the Scenes: Aeschylus' Oresteia ; 7. Spartan Woman and Spartan Goddess: Herodotus ; 8. Playing Defense: Gorgias' Encomium of Helen ; 9. Enter Helen: Euripides' Trojan Women ; 10. Two-Faced Helen: the Helen of Euripides ; 11. Helen MacGuffin: Isocrates ; Epilogue ; Bibliographical Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Taylor & Francis Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies Book 7 The Greek Text with Introduction Translation Notes Dissertations and Indices Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies Book 7 The Greek Text with Introduction Translation Notes Dissertations and Indices Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd ArjunaOdysseus Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic
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Taylor & Francis ArjunaOdysseus Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Animals in Ancient Greek Religion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus
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Taylor & Francis Artemis
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Cambridge University Press Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
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Cambridge University Press The Orphic Gold Tablets and Greek Religion
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Cambridge University Press Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths
Book SynopsisIn ancient Greece and Rome textual and pictorial versions of myths coexisted. This 2011 book provides a concise introduction to the interpretation of the images of Greek myths and describes the strategies ancient artists used in order to instruct and persuade.Trade Review'Junker's work is an excellent tool for myth classes, both for undergraduates and graduates, since he stimulates discussion in his text and gives good suggestions for further reading in the bibliography … [This book] leaves the reader with many thoughts that yield a fresh and well- instructed way to view myths depicted in ancient art.' Eric M. Moormann, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Achilles and Patroklos in the Trojan War: an introductory case study; 2. Definitions: myth and mythological image; 3. The production of myths and of mythological images - stages in the historical development; 4. Types of monument and fields of function; 5. Methods; 6. Content and intention.
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Cambridge University Press Greek Mythology Poetics Pragmatics and Fiction
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths
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Cambridge University Press Personal Religion in the Ancient Greek World
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Cambridge University Press Visiting the Oracle at Dodona
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Cambridge University Press Greek Myth and Western Art The Presence of the Past
Book SynopsisGreek myth has played an unparalleled role in the formation of Western visual traditions, for which it has provided a nearly inexhaustible source of forms, symbols and narratives. This richly illustrated book examines the legacy of Greek mythology in Western art from the classical era to the present. It reveals the range and variety with which individual Greek myths, motifs and characters have been treated throughout the history of the visual arts in the West. Tracing the emergence, survival and transformation of key mythological figures and motifs from ancient Greece through the modern era, it explores the enduring importance of such myths for artists and viewers in their own time and over the millennia that followed.Trade Review“Karl Kilinski’s lifelong fascination with the afterlife of classical myths in the art of Europe and America comes to fruition in this learned yet lively and fast-paced romp through three thousand years of art history, from Gilgamesh to Richard Nixon. Scholars, students, and aficionados of mythology will all be captivated by the results.” – H. A. Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University“With Greek Myth and Western Art, Karl Kilinski has not just contributed another compendium of classical mythology, but has done something much more useful, imaginative, and synthetic: he has created an accessible, readable, and insightful analysis of the original principles of Greek mythology, and its various artistic and literary expressions, and of its remarkable ability to adapt and address new religious and cultural issues within the rich and continually evolving cultural, artistic, and technological contexts of the Western world. It will become standard reading for students of classical art and mythology, from beginners to professionals, as well as for students of classical revival, from antiquity to the present. Perhaps even more remarkably, as an enlightening overview of classical continuity and its influence and application in Western culture, this book will stand not only as a specific study of Greek mythology but also as an intellectual history, a paradigm of the interdisciplinary methods and goals of the liberal arts.” – Robin F. Rhodes, University of Notre Dame"The text is succinct, clear, easy to follow, at times humorous, and always scholarly. Readers may feel that they are sitting in a lecture hall. A readable, insightful analysis of a sometimes elusive subject, this book reflects a lifetime of study and thought. A solid purchase for art history or English literature collections." --ChoiceTable of Contents1. The nature and origins of Greek myth; 2. Survival and revival: the motives for and means of myth transmission; 3. Form and fashion of myth in art: image and imagination; 4. Iconography and iconology: the metamorphosis of Greek myth.
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Cambridge University Press Sallustius
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1926, this book contains the ancient Greek text of the fourth-century treatise Concerning the Gods and the Universe by Sallustius. Nock provides an English translation on each facing page, as well as a critical apparatus and a detailed set of prolegomena on the historical background, sources, style and transmission of the philosophical essay.Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Prologomena; 1. The intellectual background; 2. The context of the treatise; 3. Sources and authorship; 4. Style and form; 5. The transmission of the text; Text and translation; Appendix. The readings of the Barberini manuscript; Index 1. Subject; Index 2. The Greek of Sallustius; Index 3. Other texts emended or explained.
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Llewellyn Publications,U.S. Seven Goddesses of the Hellenistic World
Book SynopsisProvides an in-depth look at seven different goddesses from the Hellenistic world, such as Athena, Companion of Heros; Atargatis, Mermaid of the Great River; and Epona, Lady of Horses.
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Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Apollon, Artemis, Asteria Und Die Apokalypse Des
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Logos Verlag Berlin ALS Die Nacht Die Welt Gebar: Mythen Und Philosophie Der Griechen Und Was Daraus Wurde
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag Der Zeuskult bei den Westgriechen 17 Palilia
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Entrar En El Olimpo
Book SynopsisEn la entrada del templo de Apolo en Delfos, se podía leer la máxima Conócete a ti mismo, que respondía a una de las preguntas que inquietaba a los filósofos de la antigu?edad: qué es lo más importante que puede aprender el ser humano? Para los amantes de la sabiduría, el autoconocimiento era el requisito fundamental. Tanto para descubrir su verdadera naturaleza como para descifrar el mundo en el que vivían. Con la idea de que los mitos pueden ser un camino para la introspección, y de que el Olimpo no es sólo un lugar mítico, sino un estado real de conciencia, este libro quiere ofrecer una nueva mirada a esos antiguos relatos grecorromanos, en sintonía con la búsqueda tradicional de discernimiento.De forma amena y rigurosa, Elena Almirall Arnal analiza el simbolismo y las enseñanzas que existen tras las historias legendarias de dieciocho figuras arquetípicas (desde Narciso, Prometeo o Perséfone, hasta Psique, Odiseo o Dánae) y las pone en relación con la sabiduría de todos los tiempos y lugares. El resultado es una lectura diferente, sapiencial y práctica de los mitos clásicos.
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Peeters Publishers Writing Myth: Mythography in the Ancient World
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays brings innovative perspectives to the study of ancient mythography, that is, the writings of the Greeks and Romans about their own mythical traditions. It treats a range of sources from the beginnings of myth criticism in the 5th century BCE to the end of antiquity in the 5th century CE, highlighting mythography's centrality to ancient views of myth and moving beyond seeing mythographic texts as valuable primarily for the preservation of details about traditional stories. Important individual mythographers are treated (e.g., Ps.-Apollodorus and Hyginus), but throughout there is an emphasis on the connections of mythography with more literary genres, such as epic, and more prestigious prose genres, such as historiography and geography. This makes the volume of interest for those who work on myth in Greek and Roman society, but also for anyone working on ancient intellectual history more broadly, including those who study rhetoric, education, literary composition, art and ancient scholarly traditions.
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