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Athenian Myths and Institutions : Words in Action

by: Tyrrell, W.B. Brown, F.S.

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Category: Mythology / Ancient Religion
Code: 12436
ISBN-13: 9780195067194 / 978-0-19-506719-4
ISBN-10: 0195067193 / 0-19-506719-3
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1991
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Paper
Pages: 229
Book Condition: As New
Comments: vii, 229 p. ; 22 cm. / Introduction : myths as words in action --Hesiod's myth of the birth of the cosmos --The Arete? standard as a source of mythmaking --The ideology of sacrifice in mythmaking --Patriarchal mythmaking on marriage --Myths and

Athenian myths and institutions : words in action
Authors:William Blake Tyrrell, Frieda S. Brown

Summary:Provides an introduction to the critical interpretation of Athenian myths, which examines them from a variety of perspectives, including historical and literary critical interpretations, as well as the more modern approaches of anthropologists, feminist critics and French structuralists.

Contents:
Introduction : myths as words in action
Hesiod's myth of the birth of the cosmos
The Aretē standard as a source of mythmaking
The ideology of sacrifice in mythmaking
Patriarchal mythmaking on marriage
Myths and citizenship
Theseus and the Parthenon as mythic propaganda
Funeral orations in mythmaking Athens

 
 
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Athenian Myths and Institutions : Words in Action

by: Tyrrell, W.B. Brown, F.S.

  • ISBN-13: 9780195067194 / 978-0-19-506719-4
  • ISBN-03: 0195067193 / 0-19-506719-3
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991

Price: 26,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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