Christopoulos / Papachrysostomou / Antonopoulos Myth and History: Close Encounters

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-078011-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 436 Seiten

Reihe: MythosEikonPoiesisISSN

The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students in the fields of Classics, history, archaeo

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christopoulos, Menelaos

Papachrysostomou, Athina

Antonopoulos, Andreas P.

Über Autor(innen)

Menelaos Christopoulos and Athina Papachrysostomou, Univ. of Patras, Greece; Andreas P. Antonopoulos, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece.