Greek Mythology: Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780521888585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str.

Claude Calame

Opis

Surveys Greek mythology as a category inseparable from the literature in which so much of it is found.

Recenzje

'… for any reader who desires an introduction to myth theory or who wants to explore particular texts in more depth, Calame's Greek Mythology provides an excellent place to start.' Rosetta

Spis treści

Foreword; 1. Narrative and poetic creations; 2. Bellerophon and the pragmatics of epic narrative; 3. Clytemnestra and Orestes at the Pythian games; 4. Io, the Danaids, the outside and tragic inflections; 5. Helen and the purposes of historiography; 6. Tiresias in an Alexandrian hymn; 7. Pausanias and the pantheon of Troezen; 8. Conclusion: virtual realities.