Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion /

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Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture. With a systematic and multi-disciplinary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Christopoulos, Menelaos, Karakantza, E. D. (Euphēmia D.), Levaniouk, Olga, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2010.
Colección:Greek studies.
Temas:
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Light and darkness in literature.
Mythology, Greek, in literature.
Mythology, Greek.
Light > Religious aspects.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Lumière et ténèbres dans la littérature.
Mythologie grecque dans la littérature.
Mythologie grecque.
Lumière > Aspect religieux.
RELIGION > Antiquities & Archaeology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism.
Greek literature
Light and darkness in literature
Light > Religious aspects
Mythology, Greek
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names / Richard Buxton
  • Dark skin and dark deeds: Danaides and Aigyptioi in a culture of light / Efimia D. Karakantza
  • Brightness and darkness in Pindar's Pythian 3: Aigla-Koronis-Arsinoë and her coming of age / Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos
  • S-light anomaly: dark brightness in Euripides' Medea / Spyros Syropoulos
  • The light imagery of divine manifestation in Homer / Soteroula Constantinidou
  • Trojan night / Ken Dowden
  • Tithonus and Phaon: mythical allegories of light and darkness in Sappho's poetry / Avgi-Anna Maggel
  • Erinyes as creatures of darkness / Mercedes Aguirre
  • Journey into light and honors in darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus / Sebastian Anderson
  • Hephaestus in Homer's epics: god of fire, god of life / Isabelle Ratinaud-Lachkar
  • To see or not to see: blind people and blindness in ancient Greek myths / Françoise Létoublon
  • Blindness as punishment / Ariadni Tatti-Gartziou
  • Light and darkness and archaic Greek cosmography / Nanno Marinatos
  • Mystic light and near-death experience / Richard Seaford
  • Dark-winged Nyx and bright-winged Eros in Aristophanes' Orphic cosmogony: The birds / Menelaos Christopoulos
  • The bright cypress of the orphic golden tablets: direction and illumination in myths of the underworld / Radcliffe G. Edmonds
  • Light and darkness in Dionysiac rituals as illustrated on attic vase paintings of the 5th century BCE / Dimitris Paleothodoros
  • Light and lighting equipment in the Eleusinian mysteries: symbolism and ritual use / Ioanna Patera
  • Magic lamps, luminous dreams: lamps in PGM recipes / Athanassia Zografou.

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