Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies : : Dialogues and Discourses /

Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies : : Dialogues and Discourses / / ed. by Naoíse Mac Sweeney.

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Throughout the ancient world, origin stories were told across the ancient world in many different ways: through poetry, prose, monumental and decorative arts, and performance in civic and religious rituals. Foundation myths, particularly those about the beginnings of cities and societies, played an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Donnellan, Lieve,
Hirt, Alfred,
Mairs, Rachel,
Malkin, Irad,
Ogden, Daniel,
Osborne, Robin,
Squire, Michael,
Sweeney, Naoíse Mac,
Turner, Susanne,
HerausgeberIn:
Mac Sweeney, Naoíse,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2015
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 36 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Foreign Founders: Greeks and Hebrews
  • Chapter 2. Oikist and Archegetes in Context: Representing the Foundation of Sicilian Naxos
  • Chapter 3. Who's the Daddy? Contesting and Constructing Theseus' Paternity in Fifth- Century Athens
  • Chapter 4. Th e Found er's Shrine and the Foundation of Ai Khanoum
  • Chapter 5. Alexander, Agathos Daimon, and Ptolemy: Th e Alexandrian Foundation Myth in Dialogue
  • Chapter 6. Figuring Rome's Foundation on the Iliac Tablets
  • Chapter 7. Beyond Greece and Rome: Foundation Myths on Tyrian Coinage in the Third Century ad
  • Epilogue
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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