From Ikaria to the Stars : Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern

by: Green, P.

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Annotation "I hadn't, till I really started digging, gauged the fierce intensity of the need for myth in the human psyche, of any age, or sensed the variety of motives dictating that need," writes Peter Green in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays on classical mythology and the mythic experience. Using the need for myth as the starting point for exploring a number of topics in Greek mythology and history, Green advances new ideas about why the human urge to make myths persists across the millennia and why the borderland between mythology and history can sometimes be hard to map. Green looks at both specific problems in classical mythology and larger theoretical issues. His explorations underscore how mythic expression opens a door into non-rational and quasi-rational modes of thought in which it becomes possible to rewrite painful truths and unacceptable history--which is, Green argues, a dangerous enterprise. His study of the intersections between classical mythology and Greek history ultimately drives home a larger point, "the degree of mythification and deception (of oneself no less than of others) of which the human mind is capable

"These fragments have I shored against my ruins" : Apollonius Rhodius and the social revalidation of myth for a new age
The flight-plan of Daedalus
Works and days, 1-285 : Hesiod's invisible audience
Athenian history and historians in the fifth century B.C
The metamorphosis of the Barbarian : Athenian Panhellenism in a changing world
Text and context in the matter of Xenophon's exile
Rebooking the flute-girls : a fresh look at the chronological evidence for the fall of Athens and the eight-month rule of the thirty
A variety of Greek appetites
Alexander's Alexandria
The Muses' birdcage : then and now
How political was the Stoa?
Ancient ethics, modern therapy
Getting to be a star : the politics of Catasterism
The innocence of Procris : Ovid AA 3.687-746
Magic and the principle of apparent causality in Pliny's Natural history

Subjects:
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Spirituality Paganism & Neo-Paganism
Beeldvorming
Cultuurgeschiedenis
Griechenland
Griekse oudheid
Myth
Mythe
Mythologie
Mythologie ancienne
Mythology, Classical
RELIGION Antiquities & Archaeology
SOCIAL SCIENCE Folklore & Mythology
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by: Bertemes, F. Della Casa, P.& Schier, W. Wemhoff, M.

• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1992

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• ISBN-13: 9786185564131 / 978-618-5564-13-1
• ISBN-03: 6185564130 / 618-5564-13-0
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• Akademische Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.C.B. Mohr, Freiburg, 1881

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From Ikaria to the Stars : Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern

by: Green, P.

• ISBN-13: 9780292702301 / 978-0-292-70230-1
• ISBN-03: 0292702302 / 0-292-70230-2
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• ISBN-03: 3421031118
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• ISBN-13: 9781898910046 / 978-1-898910-04-6
• ISBN-03: 1898910049 / 1-898910-04-9
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• ISBN-03: 3515115587 / 3-515-11558-7
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• ISBN-03: 9605243520 / 960-524-352-0
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