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Greek Mythology and Poetics /
Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage into distinctly Greek social institutions...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Myth and Poetics
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Hellenization of Indo-European Poetics
- 1. Homer and Comparative Mythology
- 2. Formula and Meter: The Oral Poetics of Homer
- 3. Hesiod and the Poetics of Pan-Hellenism
- Part II. The Hellenization of Indo-European Myth and Ritual
- 4. Patroklos, Concepts of Afterlife, and the Indic Triple Fire
- 5. The Death of Sarpedon and the Question of Homeric Uniqueness
- 6. The King and the Hearth: Six Studies of Sacral Vocabulary Relating to the Fireplace
- 7. Thunder and the Birth of Humankind
- 8. Sêma and Nóēsis: The Hero's Tomb and the "Reading" of Symbols in Homer and Hesiod
- 9. Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: "Reading" the Symbols of Greek Lyric
- 10. On the Death of Actaeon
- PART III. The Hellenization of Indo-European Social Ideology
- 11. Poetry and the Ideology of the Polis: The Symbolism of Apportioning Meat
- 12. Mythical Foundations of Greek Society and the Concept of the City-State
- 13. Unattainable Wishes: The Restricted Range of an Idiom in Epic Diction
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Scholars