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Reading Greek Culture : Texts and Images, Rituals and Myths

by: Sourvinou-Inwood, Chr.

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Category: Mythology / Ancient Religion
Code: 8177
ISBN-13: 9780198147503 / 978-0-19-814750-3
ISBN-10: 0198147503 / 0-19-814750-3
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1991
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 315
Book Condition: New
Comments: Out of Print

 "Reading" Greek culture : texts and images, rituals and myths
Author:Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

Summary:This book discusses the problems involved in attempts to make sense of ancient Greek society, in particular its texts and images, rituals and myths. The collection of seven previously published papers is prefaced by an introduction which explains the methodological approach common to each. The author draws on a variety of disciplines such as social anthropology of perception, semiology, cognitive studies, and literary theory. Such wide foundations and varied directions of approach illuminate the 'reading' of other societies to which we have limited access, and of their cultural artefacts. Each of the essays has been revised and updated for this collection, and explores not only a particular question concerning Greek religion and mythology, but also some distinctive aspects of method. Together these unearth fundamental questions such as the nature of Greek polytheism and the relationship between myth and history

vi, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

CONTENTS
List of Plates viii
PART I. READING GREEK TEXTS AND IMAGES,
EXPLORING GREEK RELIGION AND MYTHS i
I. Reading Greek Texts and Images, Exploring Greek
Religion and Myths 3
PART II. IMAGES OF ATHENIAN MAIDENS 25
II. 1. Menace and Pursuit: Differentiation and the
Creation of Meaning 29
11.2. A Series of Erotic Pursuits: Images and Meanings 58
11.3. Altars with Palm-trees, Palm-trees, and Parthenoi 99
PART ill. PERSEPHONE AND APHRODITE
AT LOCRI: A MODEL FOR PERSONALITY
DEFINITIONS IN GREEK RELIGION 145
III. Persephone and Aphrodite at Locri: A Model for
Personality Definitions in Greek Religion 147
PART IV. MYTH AND HISTORY 189
IV. 1. The Myth of the First Temples at Delphi 192
IV.2. Myth as History: The Previous Owners of the
Delphic Oracle 217
IV.3. 'Myth' and History: On Herodotos 3. 48 and
3- 5O-53
244
Bibliography 285
Index of Vases 303
General Index 307

 


Subjects:
ancient Greek literature
Art et mythologie
Civilization
Culture History
Cultuur
Greece
Greece Civilization
Greece Civilization To 146 B.C
Grèce Civilisation Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C
Grèce Civilisation jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C
Mythe Dans la littérature
Mythologie grecque
Religion grecque
Semiotiek
To 146 B.C

 
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Reading Greek Culture : Texts and Images, Rituals and Myths

by: Sourvinou-Inwood, Chr.

  • ISBN-13: 9780198147503 / 978-0-19-814750-3
  • ISBN-03: 0198147503 / 0-19-814750-3
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991

Price: 145,00 EURO

1 copy in stock