Greek Mythology and Poetics / / Gregory Nagy.
Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage into distinctly Greek social institutions...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Myth and Poetics
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. The Hellenization of Indo-European Poetics
- 1. Homer and Comparative Mythology
- 2. Formula and Meter: The Oral Poetics of Homer
- 3. Hesiod and the Poetics of Pan-Hellenism
- Part II. The Hellenization of Indo-European Myth and Ritual
- 4. Patroklos, Concepts of Afterlife, and the Indic Triple Fire
- 5. The Death of Sarpedon and the Question of Homeric Uniqueness
- 6. The King and the Hearth: Six Studies of Sacral Vocabulary Relating to the Fireplace
- 7. Thunder and the Birth of Humankind
- 8. Sêma and Nóēsis: The Hero's Tomb and the "Reading" of Symbols in Homer and Hesiod
- 9. Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: "Reading" the Symbols of Greek Lyric
- 10. On the Death of Actaeon
- PART III. The Hellenization of Indo-European Social Ideology
- 11. Poetry and the Ideology of the Polis: The Symbolism of Apportioning Meat
- 12. Mythical Foundations of Greek Society and the Concept of the City-State
- 13. Unattainable Wishes: The Restricted Range of an Idiom in Epic Diction
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Scholars