Athenian myths and institutions : words in action
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Athenian myths and institutions : words in action
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- Athenian myths and institutions : words in action
- Title remainder
- words in action
- Statement of responsibility
- Wm. Blake Tyrrell, Frieda S. Brown
- Subject
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- Athens (Greece) -- Civilization
- Athens (Greece) -- Religion
- Athènes (Grèce) -- Civilisation
- Athènes (Grèce) -- Religion
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality | Paganism & Neo-Paganism
- Civilization
- Cultuurgeschiedenis
- Electronic book
- Gesellschaft
- Greece
- Greece -- Athens
- Griekse oudheid
- Grèce -- Civilisation
- Ideologie
- Athen
- Mythen
- Mythologie
- Mythologie grecque
- Mythology, Greek
- Mythology, Greek
- Myths
- Propaganda
- RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology
- Religion
- Ritual
- mythos
- Literatur
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them. In particular, it examines how myths encode thoughts on ritual, the code of the warrior, marriage, and politics. Combining traditional historical and literary criticism with the approaches of anthropologists, feminist critics, and cultural historians, the authors study specific examples of the epic and tragedy, as well as funeral orations and the Parthenon marbles, to illuminate the ways mythic media exploited the beliefs, concepts, and practices of fifth-century Athens, simultaneously exemplif
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- digitized
- Cataloging source
- COO
- Dewey number
- 292.1/3
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BL793.A76
- LC item number
- T97 1991eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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