Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts

Bibliographic Data

ID9322965
AuthorsRichard Buxton (0000-0002-4518-5307), Richard B Buxton (0000-0002-2551-4361, corresponding author), Richard F Buxton
Year2013
Pages304
Publication date2013-07-25
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMyths And Tragedies In Their Ancient Greek Contexts (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199557615.001.0001
OpenAlexW1499184444
Open LibraryOL26007854M
ISBN9780199557615
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This book contains eleven chapters on myths, tragedies, and the interrelationship between them in ancient Greece. The book's approach focuses on contexts: it is throughout concerned to situate the topics the book analyses within the world of ancient Greece — its landscape, its social and moral priorities, its mental structures, its horizons of expectation. The approach also concentrates on themes: the book traces a variety of topics — for example, mountains, (were)wolves, mythological names, movement/stillness, blindness, feminization — through the intricate variations and retellings which these underwent in Greek antiquity. Although each of the chapters of the book has appeared in print previously in some form, each has been completely revised, often extensively so, for the present book. Recent research is taken into account in order to update, reflect upon, and, where necessary, modify or expand earlier arguments. The book also sets out, in the Introduction, the principles and objectives which underlie the approach given here to Greek myths, and how methodology is seen in relation to those of the author's predecessors and contemporaries

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