From Ikaria to the Stars : : Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern / / Peter Green.

"I hadn't, till I really started digging, gauged the fierce intensity of the need for myth in the human psyche, of any age, or sensed the variety of motives dictating that need," writes Peter Green in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays on classical mythology an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 ‘‘These Fragments Have I Shored against My Ruins’’: Apollonius Rhodius and the Social Revalidation of Myth for a New Age
  • 2 The Flight-Plan of Daedalus
  • 3 Works and Days 1–285: Hesiod’s Invisible Audience
  • 4 Athenian History and Historians in the Fifth Century B.C.
  • 5 The Metamorphosis of the Barbarian: Athenian Panhellenism in a Changing World
  • 6 Text and Context in the Matter of Xenophon’s Exile
  • 7 Rebooking the Flute-Girls: A Fresh Look at the Chronological Evidence for the Fall of Athens and the Eight-Month Rule of the Thirty
  • 8 A Variety of Greek Appetites
  • 9 Alexander’s Alexandria
  • 10 The Muses’ Birdcage, Then and Now
  • 11 How Political Was the Stoa?
  • 12 Ancient Ethics, Modern Therapy
  • 13 Getting to Be a Star: The Politics of Catasterism
  • 14 The Innocence of Procris: Ovid AA 3.687–746
  • 15 Magic and the Principle of Apparent Causality in Pliny’s Natural History
  • Appendix A. Tanglewood Tales for the Yuppies
  • Appendix B. Homer for the Kiddies
  • Bibliography
  • Index