The Story of Myth /

The Story of Myth / / Sarah Iles Johnston.

Sarah Iles Johnston argues that the nature of myths as gripping tales starring vivid characters enabled them to do their most important work: sustaining belief in the gods and heroes of Greek religion. She shows how Greek myths—and the stories told by all cultures—affect our shared view of the cosmo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Johnston, Sarah Iles,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Note on Transliterations and Abbreviations --   |t 1. The Story of Myth --   |t 2. Ritual’s Handmaid --   |t 3. Narrating Myths --   |t 4. The Greek Mythic Story World --   |t 5. Characters --   |t 6. Metamorphoses --   |t 7. Heroes --   |t Epilogue --   |t Notes --   |t References --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index of Names and Terms --   |t Index Locorum 
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