Wandering myths : transcultural uses of myth in the ancient world /
In spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies we...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter, Inc.,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Preface. Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World; Introduction. Travelling Myths, Travelling Heroes; Part I: Changing Cultural and Mythical Landscapes in Anatolia; Kingship in Heaven in Anatolia, Syria and Greece. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence; Making Meaning of Myth. On the Interpretation of Mythological Imagery in the Polyxena Sarcophagus and the Kızılbel Tomb and the History of Achaemenid Asia Minor; Myth, Memory and the Past. Wandering Heroes between Arcadia and Cyprus.
- Part II: Reception and Innovation of Mythological Programmes between Greece and ItalyFrom Mezntie to Mezentius? The Stratigraphy of a Myth in Etruria and Rome; Pots, Plots, and Performance. Comic and Tragic Iconography in Apulian Vase Painting; Distributed Narrative. A Very Short History of Juxtaposing Myths on Pompeian Walls; No One is Immortal. From Exemplum Mortalitatis to Exemplum Virtutis; Attic Sarcophagi. Myth Selection and the Heroising Tradition; Part III: Wandering East, Wandering South; Gilgāmeš and Homer: The Missing Link?
- Myth, Memory, and Mimesis. The Inaros Cycle as Literature of ResistanceDeath on the Nile: The Myth of Osiris and the Utility of History in Diodorus. Egypt In Greco-Roman Historiography; Wandering Hero, Wandering Myths? The Image of Heracles in Iran; The Transformations of Achilles on Late Roman Mosaics in the East; Epilogue; Index.