Myth and History: Close Encounters / / ed. by Menelaos Christopoulos, Athina Papachrysostomou, Andreas P. Antonopoulos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Joel,; Antonopoulos, Andreas P.,; Antypas, Constantine,; Bershadsky, Natasha,; Bravo, Jorge J.,; Burgess, Jonathan S.,; Christopoulos, Menelaos,; Cipolla, Paolo B.,; Di Serio, Chiara,; Harrison, George W. M.,; Karakantza, Efimia D.,; Karla, Grammatiki,; Kousoulini, Vasiliki,; Lecocq, Françoise,; Levaniouk, Olga,; Lytle, Ephraim,; Marinatos, Nanno,; Meyer, Marion,; Papachrysostomou, Athina,; Redondo, Jordi,; Seferiadi, Gesthimani,; Trinacty, Chris,; Velaoras, Alexandros,; Zanetto, Giuseppe,
• HerausgeberIn: Antonopoulos, Andreas P.,; Christopoulos, Menelaos,; Papachrysostomou, Athina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: MythosEikonPoiesis , 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 423 p.)

The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one m...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Part I: Epos
• Historicizing Homer’s Myth in the Homeric Epigrams
• The Aristotelian Constitution of the Ithacans and Homero-Cyclic Reception of the Odyssey
• “Let Me Tell You an Ancient Deed of the Distant Past”: The Epic Hero as a ‘Historian’
• Authority, Power and Governability in the Odyssey: The Mythical Birth of the Polis
• Part II: Lyric Poetry
• Domestic and Political Order in the ‘Foundation Myths’ of Partheneia
• Myth, Memory and a Massacre on the Road to Dodona: Reinterpreting an Elegiac Lament from Archaic Ambracia (SEG 41.540A)
• Part III: Historiography
• Shaping History: The Case of the Tyrannicides and the Marathonomachoi
• The Myth of Troy Turned into History: Thucydides’ Archaeology
• The Argive Women, Beards and Democracy
• Seeking Agariste
• The Herodotean Myth on the Origin of the Scythians
• Part IV: Drama
• (Re)writing a Sicilian Myth: The Palici and Aeschylus’ Aitnaiai
• “To Be Buried or Not to Be Buried?” Necropolitics in Athenian History and Sophocles’ Antigone
• Sophocles’ Trachiniae and the Peloponnesian War: A New Perspective
• The Authority of ‘History’ in the Exodus of Sophocles’ Trachiniae
• Nectanebo II and Philip II in Mythic Disguise: Comedy’s Burlesque of History
• Part V: Loci and Tempora
• The Myth of Opheltes at Nemea in the Context of Rivalry in the Archaic Peloponnese
• Marginal Remarks on the Concept of ‘Time of Origins’ in Classical Greek Culture
• Myth and History in the Court of Archelaus
• Part VI: Roman Era and Late Antiquity
• “Oceans Rise, Empires Fall”: Cyclical Time and History in Seneca’s Quaestiones Naturales 3
• Herodotus’ Phoenix between Hesiod and Papyrus Harris 500, and Its Legacy in Tacitus
• Empire, Ethnicity, Exegesis: Lucian on Interpretations of Greek Myth in the Roman Mediterranean
• Myth and History in Libanius’ Imperial Speeches
• Myth and Levels of Language in the Octavia
• Appendix
• The Editors
• The Contributors
• Index Rerum et Nominum Notabiliorum