Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies : Dialogues and Discourses /

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Throughout the ancient world, origin stories were told across the ancient world in many different ways: through poetry, prose, monumental and decorative arts, and performance in civic and religious rituals. Foundation myths, particularly those about the beginnings of cities and societies, played an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Donnellan, Lieve (Contribuidor), Hirt, Alfred (Contribuidor), Mac Sweeney, Naoíse (Editor ), Mairs, Rachel (Contribuidor), Malkin, Irad (Contribuidor), Ogden, Daniel (Contribuidor), Osborne, Robin (Contribuidor), Squire, Michael (Contribuidor), Sweeney, Naoíse Mac (Contribuidor), Turner, Susanne (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Temas:
Civilization, Ancient.
Group identity.
Myth.
Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Ancient Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology.
Classics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Foreign Founders: Greeks and Hebrews
  • Chapter 2. Oikist and Archegetes in Context: Representing the Foundation of Sicilian Naxos
  • Chapter 3. Who's the Daddy? Contesting and Constructing Theseus' Paternity in Fifth- Century Athens
  • Chapter 4. Th e Found er's Shrine and the Foundation of Ai Khanoum
  • Chapter 5. Alexander, Agathos Daimon, and Ptolemy: Th e Alexandrian Foundation Myth in Dialogue
  • Chapter 6. Figuring Rome's Foundation on the Iliac Tablets
  • Chapter 7. Beyond Greece and Rome: Foundation Myths on Tyrian Coinage in the Third Century ad
  • Epilogue
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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