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Imaginary Greece - The Contexts of Mythology (Paperback, New)
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Imaginary Greece - The Contexts of Mythology (Paperback, New)
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This is a study of Greek mythology in relation to its original
contexts. Part one deals with the contexts in which myths were
narrated: the home, public festivals, the lesche. Part two, the
heart of the book, examines the relation between the realities of
Greek life and the fantasies of mythology: the landscape, the
family and religion are taken as case-studies. Part three focuses
on the function of myth-telling, both as seen by the Greeks
themselves and as perceived by later observers. The author sees his
role as that of a cultural historian trying to recover the contexts
and horizons of expectation which simultaneously make possible and
limit meaning. He seeks to demonstrate how the seemingly endless
variations of Greek mythology are a product of a particular
community, situated in a particular landscape, and with these
particular institutions.
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