Myth and History: Close Encounters

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Myth and History: Close Encounters

Edited by: Menelaos Christopoulos , Athina Papachrysostomou and Andreas P. Antonopoulos

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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Volume 14 | MythosEikonPoiesis

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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.

• new perspectives and interpretations of the interactions between myth and history in Greek and Roman antiquity
• analysis of Greek and Latin texts of cross-generic array
• synchronic and diachronic approach of primary material

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

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"... the great value of the individual contributions makes this volume particularly stimulating",

Kostas Vlassopoulos, Greece & Rome 71.1, April 2024, 136-143.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Part I: Epos
Historicizing Homer’s Myth in the Homeric Epigrams Menelaos Christopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
The Aristotelian Constitution of the Ithacans and Homero-Cyclic Reception of the Odyssey Jonathan S. Burgess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
“Let Me Tell You an Ancient Deed of the Distant Past”: The Epic Hero as a ‘Historian’ Giuseppe Zanetto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Authority, Power and Governability in the Odyssey: The Mythical Birth of the Polis Constantine Antypas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Part II: Lyric Poetry
Domestic and Political Order in the ‘Foundation Myths’ of Partheneia Vasiliki Kousoulini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Myth, Memory and a Massacre on the Road to Dodona: Reinterpreting an Elegiac Lament from Archaic Ambracia (SEG 41.540A) Ephraim Lytle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
Part III: Historiography
Shaping History: The Case of the Tyrannicides and the Marathonomachoi Marion Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
The Myth of Troy Turned into History: Thucydides’ Archaeology Nanno Marinatos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
The Argive Women, Beards and Democracy Natasha Bershadsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
Seeking Agariste Olga Levaniouk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
The Herodotean Myth on the Origin of the Scythians Jordi Redondo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Part IV: Drama
(Re)writing a Sicilian Myth: The Palici and Aeschylus’ Aitnaiai Paolo B. Cipolla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
“To Be Buried or Not to Be Buried?” Necropolitics in Athenian History and Sophocles’ Antigone Efimia D. Karakantza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Sophocles’ Trachiniae and the Peloponnesian War: A New Perspective Andreas P. Antonopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
The Authority of ‘History’ in the Exodus of Sophocles’ Trachiniae Gesthimani Seferiadi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Nectanebo II and Philip II in Mythic Disguise: Comedy’s Burlesque of History Athina Papachrysostomou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Part V: Loci and Tempora
The Myth of Opheltes at Nemea in the Context of Rivalry in the Archaic Peloponnese Jorge J. Bravo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Marginal Remarks on the Concept of ‘Time of Origins’ in Classical Greek Culture Chiara Di Serio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Myth and History in the Court of Archelaus Alexandros Velaoras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Part VI: Roman Era and Late Antiquity
“Oceans Rise, Empires Fall”: Cyclical Time and History in Seneca’s Quaestiones Naturales 3 Chris Trinacty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
Herodotus’ Phoenix between Hesiod and Papyrus Harris 500, and Its Legacy in Tacitus Françoise Lecocq Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
Empire, Ethnicity, Exegesis: Lucian on Interpretations of Greek Myth in the Roman Mediterranean Joel Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	359
Myth and History in Libanius’ Imperial Speeches Grammatiki Karla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	375
Myth and Levels of Language in the Octavia George W. M. Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
Appendix
The Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	407
The Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
Index Rerum et Nominum Notabiliorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415

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June 6, 2022

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9783110780116

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June 6, 2022

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9783110779585

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13

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423

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2

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110780116

eBook ISBN: 9783110780116

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myth; history

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Scholars and students in the fields of Classics, history, archaeology, social anthropology, philosophy, and psychology.

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