Athenian Myths and Festivals
Author | : Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
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Author | : Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
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Author | : Sourvinou-Inwood Christiane the late |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199592071 |
Moving out from a particular problem about a particular Athenian festival, the late Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood investigates central questions concerning Athenian festivals and the myths that underlay them. This is the final work of an iconic figure among students of Greek religion.
Author | : William Blake Tyrrell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : 0195067193 |
This book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them. In particular, it examines how myths encode thoughts on ritual, the code of the warrior, marriage, and politics. Combining traditional historical and literary criticism with the approaches of anthropologists, feminist critics, and cultural historians, the authors study specific examples of the epic and tragedy, as well as funeral orations and the Parthenon marbles, to illuminate the ways mythic media exploited the beliefs, concepts, and practices of fifth-century Athens, simultaneously exemplifying and shaping that culture.
Author | : Herbert William Parke |
Publisher | : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Julia L. Shear |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2021-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108618022 |
In ancient Athens, the Panathenaia was the most important festival and was celebrated in honour of Athena from the middle of the sixth century BC until the end of the fourth century AD. This in-depth study examines how this all-Athenian celebration was an occasion for constructing identities and how it affected those identities. Since not everyone took part in the same way, this differential participation articulated individuals' relationships both to the goddess and to the city so that the festival played an important role in negotiating what it meant to be Athenian (and non-Athenian). Julia Shear applies theories of identity formation which were developed in the social sciences to the ancient Greek material and brings together historical, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence to provide a better understanding both of this important occasion and of Athenian identities over the festival's long history.
Author | : E. M. Berens |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3867415110 |
Collection of ancient myths and legends. Contains chapters on the various deities, Roman and Greek festivals and forms of worship. Originally published in 1894.
Author | : E. M. Berens |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2013-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3955800008 |
Collection of ancient myths and legends. Contains chapters on the various deities, Roman and Greek festivals and forms of worship. Originally published in 1894.
Author | : R. G. A. Buxton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1994-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521338653 |
This is a study of Greek mythology in relation to its original contexts. Part one deals with the contexts in which myths were narrated: the home, public festivals, the lesche. Part two, the heart of the book, examines the relation between the realities of Greek life and the fantasies of mythology: the landscape, the family and religion are taken as case-studies. Part three focuses on the function of myth-telling, both as seen by the Greeks themselves and as perceived by later observers. The author sees his role as that of a cultural historian trying to recover the contexts and horizons of expectation which simultaneously make possible and limit meaning. He seeks to demonstrate how the seemingly endless variations of Greek mythology are a product of a particular community, situated in a particular landscape, and with these particular institutions.
Author | : Erika Simon |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299091842 |
The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon sets out here to explicate those complex and often obscure festivals. By careful marshaling of a variety of proofs from literary, historical, and archaeological sources, she is able to justify some startling conclusions and achieve a comprehensive and truly original synthesis that clarifies, as never before, the probable origins and meanings of the Attic cults.
Author | : H. A. Guerber |
Publisher | : anboco |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2016-08-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3736406746 |
The want of an interesting work on Greek and Roman mythology, suitable for the requirements of both boys and girls, has long been recognized by the principals of our advanced schools. The study of the classics themselves, even where the attainments of the pupil have rendered this feasible, has not been found altogether successful in giving to the student a clear and succinct idea of the religious beliefs of the ancients, and it has been suggested that a work which would so deal with the subject as to render it at once interesting and instructive would be hailed as a valuable introduction to the study of classic authors, and would be found to assist materially the labours of both master and pupil. In endeavouring to supply this want I have sought to place before the reader a lifelike picture of the deities of classical times as they were conceived and worshipped by the ancients themselves, and thereby to awaken in the minds of young students a desire to become more intimately acquainted with the noble productions of classical antiquity. It has been my aim to render the Legends, which form the second portion of the work, a picture, as it were, of old Greek life; its customs, its superstitions, and its princely hospitalities, for which reason they are given at somewhat greater length than is usual in works of the kind. In a chapter devoted to the purpose some interesting particulars have been collected respecting the public worship of the ancient Greeks and Romans (more especially of the former), to which is subjoined an account of their principal festivals. I may add that no pains have been spared in order that, without passing over details the omission of which would have [ii]marred the completeness of the work, not a single passage should be found which could possibly offend the most scrupulous delicacy; and also that I have purposely treated the subject with that reverence which I consider due to every religious system, however erroneous.