Greek and Egyptian mythologies /

Greek and Egyptian mythologies /

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Other Authors: Bonnefoy, Yves.

Format: Book

Language: English
French

Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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Mythology, Greek > Encyclopedias.
Mythology, Egyptian > Encyclopedias.

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Call Number: BL782 .D477 1992

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Table of Contents:
  • 1: The interpretation of mythology
  • Toward a definition of myth
  • The interpretation of myths: nineteenth- and twentieth-century theories
  • Myth and writing: the mythographers
  • Prehistoric religion
  • "Nomadic thought" and religious action
  • 2: Greece
  • Greek mythology
  • The history, geography, and religion of Greece
  • Crete and Mycenae: problems of mythology and religious history
  • Myth in the Greek City: the athenian politics of myth
  • Philosophy and mythology, from Hesiod to Proclus
  • Plato's mythology and philosophy
  • The Neoplatonists and Greek myths
  • Greek cosmogonic myths
  • Theogony and myths of sovereignty in Greece
  • Deities of water in Greek mythology
  • Gods and artisans: Hephaestus, Athena, Daedalus
  • The origins of mankind in Greek myth: born to die
  • The powers of marriage in Greece
  • Kinship structures in Greek heroic dynasties: the house of Atreus and the house of Labdacus
  • Death in Greek myths
  • The topography of hell in Archaic and classical Greek literature
  • The powers of war: Ares and Athena in Greek mythology
  • Heroes and Gods of war in the Greek epic
  • Dolon the wolf: a Greek myth of trickery, between war and hunting
  • Heroes and myths of hunting in ancient Greece
  • Sacrific in Greek myths
  • The semantic value of animals in Greek mythology
  • Actaeon
  • Adonis and the Adonia
  • The Amazons
  • Apollo
  • Argos
  • The Argonauts
  • Artemis
  • Asclepius
  • Centaurs
  • Demeter
  • Dionysus
  • The Dioscuri
  • Eros
  • Europa
  • The Gorgons
  • The Graiae
  • The Harpies
  • The cult of Helen and the tribal initiation of women in Greece
  • Helios
  • Selene
  • Endymion
  • Heracles: the valor and destiny of the hero
  • Hermes
  • The Hesperides
  • Hestia
  • Io
  • Iris
  • Ixion
  • Marsyas
  • Midas
  • The Moirai
  • The Muses and Mnemosyne
  • Narcissus
  • Nemesis
  • Odysseus
  • Oedipus
  • Orion
  • Orpheus and Eurydice
  • Pan
  • Pelops
  • Perseus
  • Phaethon
  • The Pleiades
  • Rhadamanthys
  • Thetis
  • The Winds
  • Zeus, the other: a problem of Maieutics
  • 3: Egypt
  • Egyptian cosmogony
  • Egyptian anthropology
  • The divine and the Gods in ancient Egypt
  • Egyptian rituals
  • Death in Egyptian religion
  • Meroitic religion
  • The cults of Isis among the Greeks and in the Roman empire
  • Isis the magician, in Greek and Coptic Papyruses
  • The fate of the Egyptian gods from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.