Myth and the Polis

1991
Myth and the Polis

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  • Author: Dora Carlisky Pozzi
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 9780801424731
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

This fresh and thought-provoking book deepens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between the creation of myth and the development of the ancient Greek polis, or city-state, during crucial periods in archaic and classical Greece. Examining the diverse texts which crystallized Greek oral tradition, nine chapters by a multidisciplinary group of scholars focus both on the role of the community as the shaper and transmitter of myth and on the function of myth and ritual in the development of political authority in Greek society. Myth and the Polis draws upon current research in such fields such as ancient history, philology, social anthropology, ethnomusicology, comparative literature, psychoanalysis, folklore, and political theory. Taken together, the essays highlight the continuos struggle of Greek archaic and classical communities to keep their myths "true" in spite of the pull of pan-Hellenism. Shedding new light on the beginnings of Western civilization, Myth and the Polis will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including scholars and students of classics, folklore, myth, and ancient religion, politics, and history.

Cosmology and the Polis

2012-01-12
Cosmology and the Polis

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  • Author: Richard Seaford
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139504878
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised exchange. In particular, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.

Myth

2015
Myth

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  • Author: Robert Alan Segal
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0198724705
  • Category : Myth
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 161

Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Camus, and Roland Barthes, Segal uses the famous ancient myth of Adonis to analyse their individual approaches and theories. In this new edition, he not only considers the future study of myth, but also considers the interactions of myth theory with cognitive science, the implications of the myth of Gaia, and the differences between story-telling and myth. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology

2007-11-12
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology

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  • Author: Roger D. Woodard
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107495113
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 552

Professor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the world and in later years. The articles examine the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written literature, from the epic poetry of 8th century BC to the mythographic catalogues of the early centuries AD. They examine the relationship between myth, art, religion and politics among the ancient Greeks and its reception and influence on later society from the Middle Ages to present day literature, feminism and cinema. This Companion volume's comprehensive coverage makes it ideal reading for students of Greek mythology and for anyone interested in the myths of the ancient Greeks and their impact on western tradition.

Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World

1999
Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World

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  • Author: Christopher Prestige Jones
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 9780674505278
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

In this study of the political uses of perceived kinship from the Homeric age to Byzantium, Jones provides an unparalleled view of mythic belief in action and addresses fundamental questions about communal and national identity.

Retrieving Political Emotion

2010-11-01
Retrieving Political Emotion

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  • Author: Barbara Koziak
  • Publisher: Penn State Press
  • ISBN: 9780271038698
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 222

Then, drawing especially on Aristotle's construal of it as a general capacity for emotion and relating this to contemporary multidisciplinary work on emotion, she reformulates thumos to provide a more adequate theory of political emotion, as an antidote to the modern fixation on rational self-interest as the key to explaining political behavior."--BOOK JACKET.

Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis

1995
Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis

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  • Author: Mogens Herman Hansen
  • Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
  • ISBN: 9783515067591
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

Contents: F. de Polignac: Repenser la �cit��? Rituels et soci�t� en Gr�ce archa�que � M. H. Hansen: The �Autonomous City-State�. Ancient Fact or Modern Fiction? � M. H. Hansen: Kome. A Study in How the Greeks Designated and Classified Settlements which were not Poleis � T. H. Nielsen: Was Eutaia a Polis? A Note on Xenophon�s Use of the Term Polis in the Hellenika � P. Flensted-Jensen: The Bottiaians and their Poleis � S. G. Miller: Old Metroon and Old Bouleuterion in the Classical Agora of Athens � T. L. Shear, Jr.: Bouleuterion, Metroon and the Archives at Athens � A. Avram: Poleis und Nicht-Poleis im Ersten und Zweiten Attischen Seebund � W. Burkert: Greek Poleis and Civic Cults. Some Further Thoughts � L. Rubinstein: Pausanias as a Source for the Classical Greek Polis

Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia

2013-11-21
Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia

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  • Author: Naoíse Mac Sweeney
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 110747079X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the complex and changing ways in which civic identity was constructed in Ionia, relating this to the wider discourses about ethnicity and cultural difference that were current in the Greek world at this time. The Ionian cities seem to have rejected oppositional models of cultural difference which set in contrast East and West, Europe and Asia, Greek and Barbarian, opting instead for a more fluid and nuanced perspective on ethnic and cultural distinctions. The conclusions of this book have far-reaching implications for our understanding of Ionia, but also challenge current models of Greek ethnicity and identity, suggesting that there was a more diverse conception of Greekness in antiquity than has often been assumed.

Varitan's Illustrated Greek Myths

2011-04
Varitan's Illustrated Greek Myths

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  • Author: Yonah Ignacio Varitan
  • Publisher: Orphiflamme Press
  • ISBN: 9780982881200
  • Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 120

A beautifully illustrated and designed re-interpretation of 22 of the best-loved Greek myths--with plenty of modern twists, to captivate and inspire a new generation of readers as well as older audiences who are eager to return to attractive new versions of the stories they loved growing up.

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy

2013-04-29
The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy

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  • Author: Johann P. Arnason
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1118561678
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 506

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries. Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis - city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of government Offers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient Greece Places the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern world Reveals the role Greek democracy played in the political and intellectual traditions that shaped modern democracy, and in the debates about democracy in modern social, political, and philosophical thought Written collaboratively by an international team of leading scholars in classics, ancient history, sociology, and political science