Myth, ritual, memory, and exchange : essays in Greek literature and culture

Myth, ritual, memory, and exchange : essays in Greek literature and culture / John Gould.

"This book contains the most significant essays written by John Gould over the last thirty years (some now regarded as classics), including several not previously published. Newly revised, with reference both to corroborative material and to subsequent treatments and discussion of significantly...

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Main Author: Gould, John, 1927-2001
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Greece.
Mythology, Greek, in literature.
Ritual in literature.
Memory in literature.
Mythology, Greek.
Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ancient poetry and modern readers
  • 2. Hiketeia
  • Addendum (2000)
  • 3. Dramatic character and 'Human intelligibility' in Greek tragedy
  • 4. Law, custom, and myth : aspects of the social position of women in classical Athens
  • 5. Homeric epic and the tragic moment
  • 6. Tragedy in performance
  • 7. On making sense of Greek religion
  • 8. Mothers' Day : a note on Euripides' Bacchae
  • 9. The language of Oedipus
  • 10. Oedipus and Antigone at Thebes
  • 11. Dionysus and the Hippy Convoy : ritual, myth, and metaphor in the cult of Dionysus
  • 12. Give and take in Herodotus
  • 13. Plato and performance
  • 14. 'And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings' " Greek tragic drama as narrative
  • 15. The idea of society in the Iliad
  • Addendum (2000)
  • 16. Herodotus and religion
  • 17. Tragedy and collective experience
  • 18. Myth, memory, and the chorus : 'Tragic rationality'.

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