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A Companion to Greek Mythology

Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Greek Mythology

Editor(s): Ken Dowden, Niall Livingstone

Published Online: 20 APR 2011 09:33AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405111782

Online ISBN: 9781444396942

DOI: 10.1002/9781444396942

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A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks' contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.

  • Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts
  • Includes coverage of Greek myth's intersection with history, philosophy and religion
  • Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists
  • Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxvii)

  2. Approaching Myth

    1. Chapter One

      Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through (pages 1–23)

      Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone

  3. Part I: Establishing the Canon

    1. Chapter Two

      Homer's Use of Myth (pages 25–45)

      Françoise Létoublon

    2. Chapter Three

      Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century (pages 47–72)

      Ken Dowden

    3. Chapter Four

      Orphic Mythology (pages 73–106)

      Radcliffe G. Edmonds

  4. Part II: Myth Performed, Myth Believed

    1. Chapter Five

      Singing Myth: Pindar (pages 107–123)

      Ian Rutherford

    2. Chapter Six

      Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists (pages 125–139)

      Niall Livingstone

    3. Chapter Seven

      Acting Myth: Athenian Drama (pages 141–156)

      Jean Alaux

    4. Chapter Eight

      Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts (pages 157–178)

      Susan Woodford

    5. Chapter Nine

      Platonic ‘Myths’ (pages 179–193)

      Penelope Murray

    6. Chapter Ten

      Myth in History (pages 195–207)

      Alan Griffiths

  5. Part III: New Traditions

    1. Chapter Eleven

      Myth and Hellenic Identities (pages 209–226)

      Fritz Graf

    2. Chapter Twelve

      Names and Places: Myth in Alexandria (pages 227–241)

      Anatole Mori

    3. Chapter Thirteen

      The Myth of Rome (pages 243–263)

      Matthew Fox

    4. Chapter Fourteen

      Displaying Myth for Roman Eyes (pages 265–281)

      Zahra Newby

    5. Chapter Fifteen

      The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies (pages 283–300)

      Ken Dowden

    6. Chapter Sixteen

      Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi (pages 301–318)

      Zahra Newby

    7. Chapter Seventeen

      Myth in Christian Authors (pages 319–337)

      Fritz Graf

  6. Part IV: Older Traditions

    1. Chapter Eighteen

      The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology (pages 339–356)

      Nicholas J. Allen

    2. Chapter Nineteen

      Near Eastern Mythologies (pages 357–382)

      Alasdair Livingstone and Birgit Haskamp

    3. Chapter Twenty

      Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond (pages 383–410)

      Nanno Marinatos and Nicolas Wyatt

  7. Part V: Interpretation

    1. Chapter Twenty-One

      Interpreting Images: Mysteries, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings (pages 411–423)

      Susan Woodford

    2. Chapter Twenty-Two

      The Myth of History: The Case of Troy (pages 425–441)

      Dieter Hertel

    3. Chapter Twenty-Three

      Women and Myth (pages 443–458)

      Sian Lewis

    4. Chapter Twenty-Four

      Mythology of the Black Land: Greek Myths and Egyptian Origins (pages 459–470)

      Ian Rutherford

    5. Chapter Twenty-Five

      Psychoanalysis: The Wellspring of Myth? (pages 471–485)

      Richard H. Armstrong

    6. Chapter Twenty-Six

      Initiation: The Key to Myth? (pages 487–505)

      Ken Dowden

    7. Chapter Twenty-Seven

      The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Myth (pages 507–524)

      Claude Calame and Ken Dowden

  8. Part VI: Conspectus

    1. Chapter Twenty-Eight

      A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology (pages 525–547)

      Jan N. Bremmer

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      Bibliography (pages 549–603)

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      Index of Texts Discussed (pages 605–612)

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      Index of Names (pages 613–634)

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      Index of Subjects (pages 635–643)

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