Athenian myths and institutions : [electronic resource] words in action / Wm. Blake Tyrrell, Frieda S. Brown.
Material type:
- 0195067185 (acid-free paper)
- 9780195067187 (acid-free paper)
- 0195067193 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9780195067194 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- Mythology, Greek
- Athens (Greece) -- Religion
- Athens (Greece) -- Civilization
- Myths
- Greece
- Mythologie grecque
- Athènes (Grèce) -- Religion
- Athènes (Grèce) -- Civilisation
- Cultuurgeschiedenis
- Mythen
- Ideologie
- Propaganda
- Griekse oudheid
- Geschichte 500 v. Chr.-400 v. Chr
- Mythos
- Gesellschaft
- Ritual
- Mythologie
- Literatur
- Athen
- 292.1/3 20
- BL793.A76 T97 1991
- 15.51
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-224) and index.
Introduction : myths as words in action -- Hesiod's myth of the birth of the cosmos -- The Arete standard as a source of mythmaking -- The ideology of sacrifice in mythmaking -- Patriarchal mythmaking on marriage -- Myths and citizenship -- Theseus and the Parthenon as mythic propaganda -- Funeral orations in mythmaking Athens.
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