Since the first edition of "Approaches to Greek Myth" was
published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There
was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical
antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a
performance? Can myth be separated from its context? What did myths
mean to ancient Greeks and what do they mean today?
Here, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of
the most important contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether
exploring myth from a historical, comparative, or theoretical
perspective, each contributor lucidly describes a particular
approach, applies it to one or more myths, and reflects on what the
approach yields that others do not. Edmunds's new general and
chapter-level introductions recontextualize these essays and also
touch on recent developments in scholarship in the interpretation
of Greek myth.
Contributors are Jordi Pamias, on the reception of Greek myth
through history; H. S. Versnel, on the intersections of myth and
ritual; Carolina Lopez-Ruiz, on the near Eastern contexts; Joseph
Falaky Nagy, on Indo-European structure in Greek myth; William
Hansen, on myth and folklore; Claude Calame, on the application of
semiotic theory of narrative; Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, on
reading visual sources such as vase paintings; and Robert A. Segal,
on psychoanalytic interpretations.
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