Forms of Astonishment

Greek Myths of Metamorphosis
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-924549-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Forms of Astonishment sets out to interpret a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Such tales have become familiar in their Ovidian dress, as in the best-selling translation by Ted Hughes; Richard Buxton explores their Greek antecedents. One pressing question which often occurs to the reader of these tales is: Did the Greeks take them seriously? Buxton repeatedly engages with this topic, and attempts to answer it context by context and author by author. His book raises issues relevant to an understanding of broad aspects of Greek culture (e.g. how 'strange' were Greek beliefs?'); in so doing, it also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buxton, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Alteuropäische Religionen: Kelten, Germanen, Slawen, Balten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Prähistorische Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1. Narratives and their contexts

- 1: The Odyssey

- 2: Athenian drama

- 3: Visual arts

- 4: Hellenistic transformations

- 5: Post-Hellenistic narratives

- 2. The logic of transformation

- 6: Shapes of the gods

- 7: The human aetiology of landscape

- 8: Plants, trees, and human form

- 9: Challenges to the metamorphic tradition

- 10: Final thoughts on contexts

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Buxton is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol.