| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index. |
| Contents |
The genealogy of a body of thought -- What the Greeks called "myth" -- Mythology, writing, and forms of historicity -- The practices of myth-analysis -- The Danaids among themselves. Marriage founded upon violence -- A kitchen garden for women, or how to engender on one's own -- Misogynous Hestia, or the city in its autonomy -- "Even talk is in some ways divine" -- An ephebe and an olive tree -- The crane and the labyrinth -- The finger of Orestes -- At Lycaon's table -- An inventive writing, the voice of Orpheus, and the games of Palamedes -- The double writing of mythology (between the Timaeus and the Critias) -- Orpheus rewrites the city gods. |
| Subject |
Mythology, Greek.
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| Collection |
Transmissions and Transformations of the Ancient World
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| ISBN |
0801869544 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Description |
xv, 199 p. ; 24 cm. |
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