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Greek Mythology - Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction (Hardcover)
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Greek Mythology - Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction (Hardcover)
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Myths are not simple narrative plots. In ancient Greece, as in
other traditional societies, these tales existed only in the poetic
or artistic forms in which they were set down. To read them from an
anthropological point of view means to study their meaning
according to their forms of expression - epic recitation, ritual
celebration of the victory of an athlete, tragic performance,
erudite Alexandrian poetry, antiquarian prose text; in other words,
to study the functions of Greek myths in their permanent retelling
and reshaping. Falling between social reality and cultural fiction,
Greek myths were evolving creations, constantly adapting themselves
to new conditions of performance. Using myths such as those of
Persephone, Bellerophon, Helen and Teiresias, Claude Calame
presents an overview of Greek mythology as a category inseparable
from the literature in which so much of it is found. The French
edition of this book was first published in 2000.
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