The writing of Orpheus : Greek myth in cultural context /
Detienne, Marcel
The writing of Orpheus : Greek myth in cultural context / Marcel Detienne ; ranslated by Janet Lloyd. - Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003. - xv, 199 p. : 24 cm.
Translation of : Ecriture d'Orphee.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index.
The genealogy of a body of thought -- What the Greeks called "myth" -- Mythology, writing, and forms of historicity -- The practices of myth-analysis -- The Danaids among themselves : Marriage founded upon violence -- A kitchen garden for women, or how to engender on one's own -- Misogynous Hestia, or the city in its autonomy -- Even talk is in some ways divine -- An ephebe and an olive tree -- The crane and the labyrinth -- The finger of Orestes -- At Lycaon's table -- An inventive writing, the voice of Orpheus, and the games of Palamedes -- The double writing of mythology (between the Timaeus and the Critias) -- Orpheus rewrites the city gods.
0801869544
Mythology, Greek
Μυθολογία, Ελληνική
The writing of Orpheus : Greek myth in cultural context / Marcel Detienne ; ranslated by Janet Lloyd. - Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003. - xv, 199 p. : 24 cm.
Translation of : Ecriture d'Orphee.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index.
The genealogy of a body of thought -- What the Greeks called "myth" -- Mythology, writing, and forms of historicity -- The practices of myth-analysis -- The Danaids among themselves : Marriage founded upon violence -- A kitchen garden for women, or how to engender on one's own -- Misogynous Hestia, or the city in its autonomy -- Even talk is in some ways divine -- An ephebe and an olive tree -- The crane and the labyrinth -- The finger of Orestes -- At Lycaon's table -- An inventive writing, the voice of Orpheus, and the games of Palamedes -- The double writing of mythology (between the Timaeus and the Critias) -- Orpheus rewrites the city gods.
0801869544
Mythology, Greek
Μυθολογία, Ελληνική