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Myth and History: Close Encounters

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The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The un...
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  • 06 June 2022
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The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology.

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Price: $183.99
Pages: 436
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 06 June 2022
ISBN: 9783110779585
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LIT004190 LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
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Menelaos Christopoulos and Athina Papachrysostomou, Univ. of Patras, Greece; Andreas P. Antonopoulos, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece.