Reviews
The quality and success of the first edition of this work finds a new iteration in the thoroughly new second edition... Very useful for both scholars and seminars on ancient Greek mythology.
Well organized, edited, and arranged, this text is of unquestioned value to all teachers of mythology, to the advanced student of the classics, and to the research scholar, a welcome resource volume.
A valuable collection of eight essays representing a variety of approaches useful in the study of Greek myth... Edmunds's book provides a convenient opportunity to grapple with the current methodologies used in the analysis of literature and myth.
The collection as a whole provides a handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths and their interpretation. Some articles will certainly interest some readers more than others. Most, however, are provocative, well written, and carefully documented, each contributing to the interpretation of Greek mythology.
Book Details
Preface
General Introductions
Chapter 1. The Reception of Greek Myth
Chapter 2. What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander: Myth and Ritual, Old and New
Chapter 3. Greek and Near Easter
Preface
General Introductions
Chapter 1. The Reception of Greek Myth
Chapter 2. What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander: Myth and Ritual, Old and New
Chapter 3. Greek and Near Easter Mythologies: A Story of Mediterranean
Chapter 4. Hierarchy, Heroes, and Heads: Indo-European Structures in Greek Myth
Chapter 5. Odysseus and the Oar: A Comparative Approach to a Greek Legend
Chapter 6. Narrative Semantics and Pragmatics: The Poetic Creation of Cyrene
Chapter 7. Mythis in Images: Theseus and Medea as a Case Study
Chapter 8. Greek Myth and Psychoanalysis
Contributors Index