Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture /

Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture / / ed. by Menelaos Christopoulos, Athina Papachrysostomou, SNF-Projekt.

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From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Andrews, James,
Antypas, Constantin,
Bierl, Anton,
Bouvier, David,
Burgess, Jonathan S.,
Christopoulos, Menelaos,
Garani, Myrto,
Iakovou, Elena,
Kyriakidis, Stratis,
Létoublon, Françoise,
Meyer, Marion,
Michalopoulos, Andreas N.,
Nobili, Cecilia,
Papachrysostomou, Athina,
Papaioannou, Sophia,
Pellizer, Ezio,
Peraki-Kyriakidou, Eleni,
Scirpo, Paolo Daniele,
Villagra, Nereida,
Zafiropoulos, Christos A.,
Zanetto, Giuseppe,
HerausgeberIn:
Christopoulos, Menelaos,
Papachrysostomou, Athina,
SNF-Projekt, ,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:MythosEikonPoiesis , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVIII, 368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I. Epos
  • Strange Instances of Time and Space in Odysseus’ Return
  • Calculating the Mythical Dimension: Time and Distance in Homeric Navigation
  • Land and Sea in the Odyssey and the Telegony
  • The Correlation of Fountains and Altars in Archaic Greek Poetry
  • Iris as Messenger and Her Journey: Speech in Space and Time
  • The Patronymics Pelides and Aenides: Past, Present and Future in Homeric and Virgilian Genealogical Catalogues
  • Part II. Drama
  • The Bacchic-Chor(a)ic Chronotope: Dionysus, Chora and Chorality in the Fifth Stasimon of Sophocles’ Antigone
  • The Re-enactment of the Past in the Present and the Transformation of Space in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
  • Time- and Space-Travelling in Greek Middle Comedy
  • Part III. Empirical and Imaginary Chronotopes
  • The martyria of the Strife for Attica – martyria of Changes in Cult and Myth. Space and Time in the West Pediment of the Parthenon
  • Cattle-raid Myths in Western Peloponnese
  • Time and Space in Argolic Traditions: From Ocean to Europe
  • About the Boeotian Origin of the Emmenidai’s Genos: An Indication from Gela
  • Fighting on the River: The Alpheus and the ‘Pylian Epic’
  • Time and Space in the Myth of Byblis and Caunus
  • Mythological Time and Space in Ovid’s Exile Poetry
  • Part IV. Shifting Chronotopes
  • Kairos: The Appropriate Time, Place and Degree in Protagoras’ Myth of Origins
  • From Here to Eternity: Mythologein in Plato’s Phaedo
  • Ovid’s Temple(s) of Vesta (Fasti 6.249– 460)
  • Carmenta in the Fasti: A Tale of Two Feasts
  • The Decisive Moment in Mythology: The Instant of Metamorphosis
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Nominum Notabiliorum
  • Notes on Contributors

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