Title: A Companion to Greek Mythology - eBook
By: Ken Dowden(Ed.) & Niall Livingstone(Ed.)
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781444396935
ISBN-13: 9781444396935
Stock No: WW22516EB

Publisher's Description

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A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.

Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts
Includes coverage of Greek myth’s intersection with history, philosophy and religion
Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists
Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece

Author Bio

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Ken Dowden is Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Uses of Greek Mythology (1992), European Paganism (2000), and Zeus (2006).

Niall Livingstone is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Isocrates' Busiris (2001) and Epigram (with G. Nisbet, 2010).

Editorial Reviews

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"Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 November 2011)

"This collection of twenty eight articles on interpreting Greco-Roman culture presents a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to examining Greek mythology within the broader context of the intellectual and cultural development of the ancient world and provides an in depth discussion of the influence of traditional stories on the development of a shared historical culture." (Book News, Inc., 1 August 2011)