Download or read book Po tique des mythes dans la Gr ce antique written by Claude Calame and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1999-12-31T23:00:00+01:00 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les mythes ne sont pas de simples intrigues. En Grèce comme ailleurs, ces récits traditionnels n'ont d'existence que dans des formes poétiques ou plastiques, qui sont elles-mêmes liées à des circonstances sociales et culturelles particulières. Leur redonner leur véritable dimension, à la fois énonciative et anthropologique, c'est montrer leur insertion dans des formes constamment différentes - poème épique, célébration rituelle d'un athlète, tragédie, historiographie naissante, poésie hellénistique - et faire apparaître ainsi les fonctions successives des mythes, chaque fois réinventés et réorientés dans leur logique et leurs valeurs. Ce livre retrace l'histoire de ces réécritures.
Download or read book Myth and History in Ancient Greece written by Claude Calame and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Calame opens with a magisterial historical survey demonstrating today's misapplication of the terms "myth" and "mythology." Next, he examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Having established this interpretive framework, Calame undertakes a comparative analysis of six accounts of Cyrene's foundation: three by Pindar and one each by Herodotus (in two different versions), Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes. We see how the underlying narrative was shaped in each into a poetically sophisticated, distinctive form by the respective medium, a particular poetical genre, and the specific socio-historical circumstances. Calame concludes by arguing in favor of the Greeks' symbolic approach to the past and by examining the relation of mythos to poetry and music.
Download or read book Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry Theories and Models written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho’s songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric.
Download or read book Le M tier du mythe written by Fabienne Blaise and published by Presses Univ. Septentrion. This book was released on 1996 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hésiode doit sans doute plus que jamais se lire à plusieurs. Le nom du poète grec archaïque - le seul qui nous ait transmis un exposé systématique de la naissance des dieux et du passé mythique de l'humanité - s'ouvre en effet immédiatement sur un conflit d'interprétation. Depuis que l'anthropologie, la sémiotique et l'histoire sociale ont su repérer dans le texte de la Théogonie et des Travaux et les jours la prégnance de thèmes et de formes traditionnels jusque dans le détail de leur texture poétique, le statut de l'originalité de ces textes, fortement soulignée par les analyses philologiques et historiques habituelles, se trouve mis en question. D'un autre côté, quel sens donner à l'individualité face à la tradition qu'Hésiode revendique expressément dans le récit de sa rencontre avec les Muses ? En quoi ces œuvres font-elles événement ? Dans une sorte de "séminaire écrit", les positions rassemblées ici s'argumentent les unes face aux autres, en revenant sur les passages essentiels des deux poèmes : ouvertures de la Théogonie et des Travaux, combats des dieux, mythes de Pandore et de Prométhée, mythe des races humaines. Le noyau du livre vient de la discussion organisée à Lille par le Centre de Recherche Philologique en 1989, sous le titre, "Hésiode. Philologie, anthropologie, philosophie". Il s'est enrichi du débat mené depuis à l'Université de Pise et dans les séances du séminaire annuel CorHaLi (Cornell-Harvard- Lille) sur la poésie archaïque.
Download or read book Sex in Antiquity written by Mark Masterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the discipline of ancient gender and sexuality studies, showcasing the work of leading international scholars as well as that of emerging talents and new voices. Sexuality and gender in the ancient world is an area of research that has grown quickly with often sudden shifts in focus and theoretical standpoints. This volume contextualises these shifts while putting in place new ideas and avenues of exploration that further develop this lively field or set of disciplines. This broad study also includes studies of gender and sexuality in the Ancient Near East which not only provide rich consideration of those areas but also provide a comparative perspective not often found in such collections. Sex in Antiquity is a major contribution to the field of ancient gender and sexuality studies.
Download or read book Antike Mythen written by Ueli Dill and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge von namhaften europäischen und amerikanischenAltertumswissenschaftlern und Religionswissenschaftlern, die einen repräsentativen Querschnitt der zeitgenössischen Erforschung des Mythos, seiner Erscheinungsformen und seiner Transformationen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen und Epochen darbieten.
Download or read book A Companion to Greek Mythology written by Ken Dowden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts Includes coverage of Greek myth’s intersection with history, philosophy and religion Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece
Download or read book Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts written by Richard Buxton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work brings together eleven of Richard Buxton's studies of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship between the two, and their importance to the Greeks themselves. Situating and contextualising topics and themes, such as mountains, (were)wolves, mythological names, movement/stillness, blindness, and feminization, within the world of ancient Greece - its landscapes, social and moral priorities, and mental structures - he traces the intricate variations and retellings which they underwent in Greek antiquity. Although each chapter has appeared in print in some form before, each has been thoroughly revised for the present book, taking into account recent research. The introduction sets out the principles and objectives which underlie Buxton's approach to Greek myths, and how he sees his own method in relation to those of his predecessors and contemporaries.
Download or read book Time and Space in Ancient Myth Religion and Culture written by SNF-Projekt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Sophocles and Greek Middle Comedy, and from Plato and Protagoras to Ovid, this volume features a panoramic and cross-generic overview of the diverse handling and ad hoc elaboration of the overarching literary notions of "time" and "space". The twenty-one contributions of this volume written by an international group of esteemed scholars provide an equal number of hermeneutic approaches to individual, distinct aspects of Greek and Latin literature. The volume is purposely designed not as a linear display of knowledge, but rather as an anthology of select paradigms that aim to demonstrate the multidimensional function and multifaceted role of the twin notions of "time" and "space" throughout ancient Greek and Latin literary texts. The volume opens with analyses of conspicuous cases from epic poetry, proceeds with examples from drama (tragedy and comedy), and concludes with diverse instances of chronotopes (empirical, imaginary, and even shifting ones), in various literary genres. The volume is of greatest relevance since it meets the cultural and theoretical trends of today’s Classics. It therefore will attract not only the interest of specialised Classicists but it is also intended for a wider general readership.
Download or read book Plato and Myth written by Catherine Collobert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato’s dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and poetic discourse.
Download or read book Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece written by Claude Calame and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancient Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social practice of the present. This book shows how the Ancient Greeks' collective memory was based on a remarkable faculty for the creation of ritual and narrative symbols.
Download or read book Dithyramb in Context written by Barbara Kowalzig and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors look at dithyramb in its entirety, understanding it as a social and cultural phenomenon of Greek antiquity. How the dithyramb functions as a marker and as a carrier of social change throughout Greek antiquity is expressed in themes such as performance and ritual, poetics and intertextuality, music and dance, history and politics.
Download or read book Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion written by Menelaos Christopoulos and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture. With a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach, the book elucidates the light/darkness dichotomy in color semantics, appearance and concealment of divinities and creatures of darkness, the eye sight and the insight vision, and the role of the mystic or cultic.
Download or read book M tamorphoses du mythe en Gr ce antique written by Claude Bérard and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les mythes les dieux et l homme written by Louis Bardollet and published by Belles Lettres. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apres tout ai-je pense, c'est une chance de ne rien savoir de la personne meme de l'inconnu que les siecles ont appele Homere et n'en savoir pas davantage sur la genese, sur les circonstances de la composition des poemes - l'Iliade et l'Odyssee - que de tout temps on lui a attribues. Une chance, sans doute, a condition de ne pas profiter de ce manque de connaissances pour se jeter dans de folles exegeses, comme cela fut tant de fois accompli. On peut se consacrer alors a une etude litteraire, au ras du texte, si l'on ose ainsi parler, comme j'en ai donne l'esquisse en accompagnement de ma traduction de la Collection Bouquins. Mais on peut aussi, comme j'en ai fait ici l'essai, considerant plus que jamais les oeuvres dans leur nudite, rechercher, au-dela du materiau epique, au fond de la geste des heros, que magnifie la presence active des dieux, la source vivante des deux poemes, qui ne peut se situer que dans les regions mysterieuses ou secretement travailla le genie de leur createur. Une telle quete fut donc ici mon propos. Pour qui voudra me suivre, ce sera, je l'espere, comme ce fut pour moi, l'occasion d'une exaltante rencontre. Il verra que les somptueux ornements de l'epopee, n'ont pas detourne Homere- et lui ont parfois permis- d'exprimer, loin de toute doctrine, et meme de toute conception claire d'un monde qui reste et restera toujours, en definitive, ce qu'il est, le souffle incomprehensible et pourtant reel qui fait que l'homme est homme. L.B. Louis Bardollet, professeur agrege de l'Universite, a enseigne les Lettres classiques durant toute sa carriere au lycee Condorcet et consacre l'essentiel de ses reflexions et de ses travaux aux tragiques grecs et a Homere. Il est en particulier l'auteur d'une traduction d'Eschyle (en collaboration avec Bernard Deforge) et d'une traduction de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssee qui font autorite.
Download or read book Kinship in Ancient Athens written by S. C. Humphreys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of kinship is at the heart of understanding the structure of ancient Athenian society and the lives of its citizens. Drawing on epigraphic, literary, and archaeological sources, 'Kinship in Ancient Athens' explores interactions between kin across a range of social contexts, from family life to legal matters, politics, and more.
Download or read book Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece written by Lynette Mitchell and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhellenism defined the community of the Hellenes and gave it political substance. Panhellenism also responded to other needs of the community, in particular serving to locate the Hellenes in time and space. One of the chief Panhellenic narratives, the war against the barbarian, provided the conceptual framework in which Alexander the Great could imagine his Asian campaign.
