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Book SynopsisAn eloquent answer to some of the most vexing questions about the myth of Orpheus and its far-reaching ramifications through time and culture, Detienne's work ultimately offers a major rethinking of Greek mythology.
Trade ReviewDazzling display of erudition and sometimes brilliant insights... Advanced students of mythology will find illumination in these pages. -- Penelope Murray Journal of Classics Teaching 2004 Anyone with an interest in either the theory of myth interpretation or any of the particular mythic complexes Detienne engages will find this a fascinating and provocative book. -- Radcliffe G. Edmonds III Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004
Table of ContentsContents: Author's Note Translator's Note Preface to the English-Language EditionPART I: From Myth to Mythology1. The Genealogy of a Body of Thought 2. What the Greeks Called "Myth" 3. Mythology, Writing and Forms of Historicity 4. The Practices on Myth-AnalysisPart II: Does Mythology Have a Sex?5. The Danaids among Themselves: Marriage Founded 6. A Kitchen Garden for Women, or How to Engender on One's Own 7. Misogynous Hestia, or the City in Its Autonomy 8. Even Talk Is in Some Ways DivinePART III: Between the Labyrinth and the Overturned Table9. An Ephebe and an Olive Tree 10. The Craine and the Labyrinth 11. The Finger of Orestes 12. At Lycaon's TablePART IV: Writing Mythology13. An Inventive Writing, the Voice of Orpheus, and the Games of Palamedes 14. The Double Writing of Mythology (between the Timaeus and the Critias) 15. Orpheus Rewrites the City GodsNotes Select Bibliography Index
