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Approaches to Greek Myth, second edition
Now thoroughly revised and updated, this volume offers a variety of historical, comparative, and theoretical perspectives on Greek myth.
Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from its context? What did myths mean to ancient Greeks and what do they mean today?
Here, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether exploring myth from a historical, comparative, or theoretical perspective, each contributor lucidly describes a particular approach, applies it to one or more myths, and reflects on what the approach yields that others do not. Edmunds's new general and chapter-level introductions recontextualize these essays and also touch on recent developments in scholarship in the interpretation of Greek myth.
Contributors are Jordi Pàmias, on the reception of Greek myth through history; H. S. Versnel, on the intersections of myth and ritual; Carolina López-Ruiz, on the near Eastern contexts; Joseph Falaky Nagy, on Indo-European structure in Greek myth; William Hansen, on myth and folklore; Claude Calame, on the application of semiotic theory of narrative; Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, on reading visual sources such as vase paintings; and Robert A. Segal, on psychoanalytic interpretations.
About the Author
Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.
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"The quality and success of the first edition of this work finds a new iteration in the thoroughly new second edition... Very useful for both scholars and seminars on ancient Greek mythology."
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Other Titles by Lowell Edmunds
Martini, Straight Up
Oedipus
Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry
Other Titles in LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Hesiod, third edition
Toward an Augustan Poetic
Apocalypse and Golden Age
Other Titles in Classical history / classical civilisation
Hesiod, third edition
Apocalypse and Golden Age
Control of the Laws in the Ancient Democracy at Athens