Dowden K., Livingstone N. (eds). A Companion to Greek Mythology

Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 643 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-1178-2.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.Approaching Myth.
Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through (Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone).
Establishing the Canon.
Homer’s Use of Myth (Françoise Létoublon).
Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century (Ken Dowden).
Orphic Mythology (Radcliffe G. Edmonds III).
Myth Performed, Myth Believed.
Singing Myth: Pindar (Ian Rutherford).
Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists (Niall Livingstone).
Acting Myth: Athenian Drama (Jean Alaux).
Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts (Susan Woodford).
Platonic ‘Myths’ (Penelope Murray).
Myth in History (Alan Griffiths).
New Traditions.
Myth and Hellenic Identities (Fritz Graf).
Names and Places: Myth in Alexandria (Anatole Mori).
The Myth of Rome (Matthew Fox).
Displaying Myth for Roman Eyes (Zahra Newby).
The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies (Ken Dowden).
Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi (Zahra Newby).
Myth in Christian Authors (Fritz Graf).
Older Traditions.
The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology (Nicholas J. Allen).
Near Eastern Mythologies (Alasdair Livingstone and Birgit Haskamp).
Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond (Nanno Marinatos and Nicolas Wyatt).
Interpretation.
Interpreting Images: Mysteries, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings (Susan Woodford).
The Myth of History: The Case of Troy (Dieter Hertel).
Women and Myth (Sian Lewis).
Mythology of the Black Land: Greek Myths and Egyptian Origins (Ian Rutherford).
Psychoanalysis: The Wellspring of Myth? (Richard H. Armstrong).
Initiation: The Key to Myth? (Ken Dowden).
The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Myth (Claude Calame, translated by Ken Dowden).
Conspectus.
A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology (Jan N. Bremmer).