Myth and History in Ancient Greece
Title | Myth and History in Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Claude Calame |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2003-07-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691114587 |
Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax methodology that has allowed them to prevail. He argues that the Greeks viewed their abundance of narratives not as a single mythology but as an "archaeology." They speculated symbolically on key historical events so that a community of believing citizens could access them efficiently, through ritual means. Central to the book is Calame's rigorous and fruitful analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies--Cyrene, in eastern Libya. Calame opens with a magisterial historical survey demonstrating today's misapplication of the terms "myth" and "mythology." Next, he examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Having established this interpretive framework, Calame undertakes a comparative analysis of six accounts of Cyrene's foundation: three by Pindar and one each by Herodotus (in two different versions), Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes. We see how the underlying narrative was shaped in each into a poetically sophisticated, distinctive form by the respective medium, a particular poetical genre, and the specific socio-historical circumstances. Calame concludes by arguing in favor of the Greeks' symbolic approach to the past and by examining the relation of mythos to poetry and music.
Redemption and Two Other Plays
Title | Redemption and Two Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Graf Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | Library of Alexandria |
Pages | 425 |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1465528709 |
The History of Colonization from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Title | The History of Colonization from the Earliest Times to the Present Day PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Crittenden Morris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Colonization |
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Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land
Title | Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land PDF eBook |
Author | George Adam Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Atlases |
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An Introduction to the History of the principal Kingdoms and States of Europe ... Made English from the original by J. Crull : the third edition, with additions
Title | An Introduction to the History of the principal Kingdoms and States of Europe ... Made English from the original by J. Crull : the third edition, with additions PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 1702 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
History for Ready Reference ...
Title | History for Ready Reference ... PDF eBook |
Author | Josephus Nelson Larned |
Publisher | |
Pages | 854 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History
Title | The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History PDF eBook |
Author | Banier (M. l'abbé, Antoine) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 642 |
Release | 1739 |
Genre | Fables, French |
ISBN |