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Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony
Claude Calame
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Description for Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony
Hardback. Offers an analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya. This book examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Translator(s): Berman, Daniel W. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 428.
Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax methodology that has allowed them to prevail. He argues that the Greeks viewed their abundance of narratives not as a single mythology but as an "archaeology." They speculated symbolically on key historical events so that a community of believing citizens could access them efficiently, through ritual means. Central to the book is Calame's rigorous and fruitful analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the ... Read more
Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax methodology that has allowed them to prevail. He argues that the Greeks viewed their abundance of narratives not as a single mythology but as an "archaeology." They speculated symbolically on key historical events so that a community of believing citizens could access them efficiently, through ritual means. Central to the book is Calame's rigorous and fruitful analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691114583
SKU
V9780691114583
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About Claude Calame
Claude Calame is Directeur d'etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Lausanne. Several of his books have appeared in English translation, including "The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece" (Princeton), "Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece", and "The Craft of Poetic Speech in ... Read more
Reviews for Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony
"Calame's faultless analysis convinces us that what for us is myth was for the Greeks nothing but the telling of 'les evenements constitutifs du passe de sa propre culture; mieux, de sa propre cite'... [T]he lucidity of his arguments and the answers he provides to many of the problems posed by Greek literary tradition cannot be denied."
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