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" From Ikaria to the stars : "
Peter Green
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BL
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582134
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b411353
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| Main Entry
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Green, Peter,1924-
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| Title & Author
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From Ikaria to the stars : : classical mythification, ancient and modern /\ Peter Green
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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Austin, TX :: University of Texas Press,, 2004
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xxi, 324 p. ;; 24 cm
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0292702302 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-305) and index
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| Contents
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"These fragments have I shored against my ruins" : Apollonius Rhodius and the social revalidation of myth for a new age -- The flight-plan of Daedalus -- Works and days, 1-285 : Hesiod's invisible audience -- Athenian history and historians in the fifth century B.C. -- The metamorphosis of the Barbarian : Athenian Panhellenism in a changing world -- Text and context in the matter of Xenophon's exile -- Rebooking the flute-girls : a fresh look at the chronological evidence for the fall of Athens and the eight-month rule of the thirty -- A variety of Greek appetites -- Alexander's Alexandria -- The Muses' birdcage : then and now -- How political was the Stoa? -- Ancient ethics, modern therapy -- Getting to be a star : the politics of Catasterism -- The innocence of Procris : Ovid AA 3.687-746 -- Magic and the principle of apparent causality in Pliny's Natural history
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Mythology, Classical
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Myth
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292.1/3
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BL723.G74 2004
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BL723.G74 2004
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