| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 304 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches
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Greek studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names / Richard Buxton -- Dark skin and dark deeds: Danaides and Aigyptioi in a culture of light / Efimia D. Karakantza -- Brightness and darkness in Pindar's Pythian 3: Aigla-Koronis-Arsinoë and her coming of age / Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos -- S-light anomaly: dark brightness in Euripides' Medea / Spyros Syropoulos -- The light imagery of divine manifestation in Homer / Soteroula Constantinidou -- Trojan night / Ken Dowden -- Tithonus and Phaon: mythical allegories of light and darkness in Sappho's poetry / Avgi-Anna Maggel -- Erinyes as creatures of darkness / Mercedes Aguirre -- Journey into light and honors in darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus / Sebastian Anderson -- Hephaestus in Homer's epics: god of fire, god of life / Isabelle Ratinaud-Lachkar -- To see or not to see: blind people and blindness in ancient Greek myths / Françoise Létoublon -- Blindness as punishment / Ariadni Tatti-Gartziou -- Light and darkness and archaic Greek cosmography / Nanno Marinatos -- Mystic light and near-death experience / Richard Seaford -- Dark-winged Nyx and bright-winged Eros in Aristophanes' Orphic cosmogony: The birds / Menelaos Christopoulos -- The bright cypress of the orphic golden tablets: direction and illumination in myths of the underworld / Radcliffe G. Edmonds -- Light and darkness in Dionysiac rituals as illustrated on attic vase paintings of the 5th century BCE / Dimitris Paleothodoros -- Light and lighting equipment in the Eleusinian mysteries: symbolism and ritual use / Ioanna Patera -- Magic lamps, luminous dreams: lamps in PGM recipes / Athanassia Zografou. |
| Summary |
Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion is a ground-breaking volume dedicated to a thorough examination of the well known empirical categories of light and darkness as it relates to modes of thought, beliefs and social behavior in Greek culture. With a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach, the book elucidates the light/darkness dichotomy in color semantics, appearance and concealment of divinities and creatures of darkness, the eye sight and the insight vision, and the role of the mystic or cultic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Light and darkness in literature.
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Light and darkness in literature. |
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature. |
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Mythology, Greek.
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Mythology, Greek. |
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Light -- Religious aspects.
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Light -- Religious aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Christopoulos, Menelaos.
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Karakantza, E. D. (Euphēmia D.)
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Levaniouk, Olga, 1971-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010 9780739138984 (DLC) 2010015473 (OCoLC)610018907 |
| ISBN |
9780739139011 (ebook) |
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0739139010 (ebook) |
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1282921800 |
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9781282921801 |
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9780739138984 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0739138987 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612921803 |
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