|
" Myth and history in ancient Greece : "
Claude Calame ; translated by Daniel W. Berman.
| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
892222
|
| Uniform Title
|
:
|
Mythe et histoire dans l'antiquité grecque.English
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Calame, Claude.
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Myth and history in ancient Greece : : the symbolic creation of a colony /\ Claude Calame ; translated by Daniel W. Berman.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Princeton :: Princeton University Press,, ©2003.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
xvii, 178 pages ;; 24 cm
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0691114587
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780691114583
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Introduction to the English edition / by Daniel W. Berman -- I. Illusions of mythology. The substance of myth and mythology ; Contrasts and comparisons ; Greek nomenclature? ; The production of symbolic discourse -- II. The foundation narrative of Cyrene. Pindar and the time of performance ; Pythian 4: the birth of a land ; Pythian 9: a pastoral civilization ; Pythian 5: calling all heroes! ; Herodotus and the chronology of history ; Callimachus and Apollonius: a return to poetry -- III. Neither myth nor history. Strabo's Homer ; Plato and fiction.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
"Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax methodology that has allowed them to prevail. He argues that the Greeks viewed their abundance of narratives not as a single mythology but as an "archaeology." They speculated symbolically on key historical events so that a community of believing citizens could access them efficiently, through ritual means. Central to the book is Calame's rigorous and fruitful analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya."--Jacket.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythology, Greek.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Entstehung
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Gründungslegende
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythologie
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythology, Greek.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
mythos
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Mythen.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Ontstaansgeschiedenis.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Cyrene (Extinct city)
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Griechenland
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Kyrene
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Libya, Cyrene (Extinct city)
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
292.1/3
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
BL783.C3513 2003
|
| NLM classification
|
:
|
11.15bcl
|
|
|
:
|
11.15.bcl
|
|
|
:
|
6,12ssgn
|
|
|
:
|
FB 4019rvk
|
|
|
:
|
LF 2620rvk
|
| |