Approaches to Greek Myth
Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth as published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from its context? What did myths mean to ancient Greeks and what do they mean today? Here, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether exploring myth from a historical, comparative, or theoretical perspective, each contributor lucidly describes a particular approach, applies it to one or more myths, and reflects on what the approach yields that others do not. Edmunds's new general and chapter-level introductions recontextualize these essays and also touch on recent developments in scholarship in the interpretation of Greek myth. -- from back cover
eBook, English, [2014]
Second edition View all formats and editions
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, [2014]
1 online resource (viii, 470 pages :) illustrations, maps
9781421414201, 1421414201
1139351528
The reception of Greek myth / Jordi Pamias
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander: myth and ritual, old and new / H.S. Versnel
Greek and Near Eastern mythologies: a story of Mediterranean encounters / Carolina López-Ruiz
Hierarchy, heroes, and heads: Indo-European structures in Greek myth / Joseph Falaky Nagy
Odysseus and the oar: a comparative approach to a Greek legend / William Hansen
Greek myth, semantics and pragmatics: the poetic creation of Cyrene / Claude Calame
Myths in images: Theseus and Medea as a case study / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Greek myth and psychoanalysis / Robert Segal
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