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The Odyssey in Athens: Myths of Cultural Origins

Book by Erwin F. Cook; Cornell University Press, 1995

Subjects:

Athens (Greece)--Religious Life And Customs, Epic Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Epic Poetry, Greek--Religious Aspects, Erechtheum (Athens, Greece), Homer--Knowledge--Athens (Greece), Homer--Odyssey, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Odysseus (Greek Mythology) In Literature

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...first divine assembly. Thrinakie belongs to a family of Greek myths which may be called aetiological in that they describe the origin of sacrificial ritual. Such myths, though not intrinsically concerned with justice, regularly...
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The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society

Book by Edith Hall; Oxford University Press, 2006

Subjects:

Athens (Greece)--Social Life And Customs, Greek Drama--History And Criticism, Theater--Greece--Athens--History--To 500

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...fascinated by ancient Greek tragedys fascination...undoubtedly peculiar to Athens, in the sense that...polis to the larger Greek world.1 Moreover, in its myth-napping of important...tragedy reads the archaic Greek myths from a profoundly Athenocentric...
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Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC

Book by Anton Powell; Routledge, 2001

Subjects:

Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government, Athens (Greece)--Social Conditions, Greece--Politics And Government--To 146 B.C, Greece--Social Conditions--To 146 B.C, Sparta (Extinct City)--Politics And Government, Sparta (Extinct City)--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...P. Nilsson, Cults, myths, oracles and politics...Dodds valuable work The Greeks and the irrational...elite in fifth-century Athens. The authoritative modern...K.C. Guthrie, The Greeks and their gods, ch. 10; K.J. Dover, Greek popular morality, 261...enforced some lessons; many Greeks accepted that they themselves...
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Greek Myths and Christian Mystery

Book by Hugo S. J. Rahner; Biblo and Tannen, 1971

Subjects:

Christianity And Other Religions--Greek, Greece--Religion, Mysteries, Religious, Mythology, Greek

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...showing had been learned by Basil in the great school of Athens at a time when Greek spirit had already begun its weary death, and that...greater detail the Christian interpretation of the myth of Odysseus and the Sirens, let us, as it were...
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The Origin of the Gods: A Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogonic Myth

Book by Richard Caldwell; Oxford University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Gods, Greek--Psychology, Mythology, Greek--Psychology, Psychoanalysis And Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...Peloponnese of new groups of Greek-speaking peoples from the...the Dorian invasion. Only Athens and its surrounding area, and...including temporary refugees in Athens from other parts of Greece occupied...A cultural revival began in Athens around 1050, marked by a distinctive...

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Greek Myths, Christian Mysteries, and the Tautegorical Symbol

Journal article by Nicholas Halmi; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 36, 2005

Subjects:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--Criticism and interpretation, English romanticism, 1798-1832--Criticism and interpretation, English romanticism, 1798-1832--Religious aspects, Greek mythology--Influence, Prometheus Bound (Play)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

Greek Myths, Christian Mysteries...concluded (The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism...use of un-translated Greek and Latin, and casual...familiarity with the Bible, Greek mythology, and ancient...polytheism in ancient Athens (1277), then those...his conviction that the Greek mystery cults, guided...thereby protected the Greeks from the worst effects...
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Love Rejected: Some Notes on the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh and the Greek Myth of Hippolytus

Journal article by Fumi Karahashi, Carolina López-Ruiz; Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 58, 2006

Collections: History, Entire Library

...or adorn a given Greek myth or epic narrative...in addition to Athens itself and other...years brought from Athens by command of the...different tales in the Greek tradition (e.g...version of) a local myth that inspired his...postulate that the myths of Theseus and Hippolytus...
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Claudia Baracchi. of Myth, Life and War in Plato's Republic

Journal article by Anthony J. Papalas; Utopian Studies, Vol. 17, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Of Myth, Life and War in Plato's Republic (Book)--Book reviews

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...Claudia Baracchi. of Myth, Life and War in Platos...the struggle between Athens and Sparta (431 BC...involved most of the Greek world. The war itself...is walking away from Athens down to the Piraeus with...this casual walk from Athens to the port town as a...
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Nikos Kazantzakis, Nietzsche, and the Myth of the Hero

Journal article by Marinos Pourgouris; International Fiction Review, Vol. 32, 2005

Subjects:

Greek literature--Criticism and interpretation, Kazantzakis, Nikos--Criticism and interpretation, The Last Temptation of Christ (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

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...Nikos Kazantzakis, Nietzsche, and the Myth of the Hero. by Marinos Pourgouris In...live exclusively in history." (4) In myth, time is reversible: "a primordial mythical...to understand the relationship between myth and history as well as Nietzsches perception...
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Homo Faber, Homo Sapiens, or Homo Politicus? Protagoras and the Myth of Prometheus

Journal article by Alfredo Ferrarin; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 54, 2000

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Gods, Greek--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Human beings--Philosophy, Intellect--Philosophy, Philosophy--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Prometheus (Mythological figure)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...What is common to most Greek versions of the myth is that Prometheus took...argument, like many of the myths of origins we find in...This obviously is a myth of origins, but there...arts: "In this way the Greeks have called their attention...preserved and shaped it in myths for consciousness...

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Freedom in Sparta and Athens: The Stark Contrast between Ancient Sparta and Athens Makes Abundantly Clear That Cultural Achievement Occurs Only Where Men Are Free

Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 22, May 29, 2006

Subjects:

Atheism--Social aspects, Athens, Greece--Cultural policy, Freedom--Social aspects, Greek history--Social aspects, Greeks--Social aspects, Liberty--Social aspects, Sparta, Greece--Cultural policy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...many of the smaller Greek cities surrendered...greatest city-states, Athens and Sparta, along with...invader. For its part, Athens sent forth a fleet of...preferred warship of the Greeks, to counter the numerically...Heracles, just one of the myths or legends associated...the site where, in myth, the goddess Aphrodite...his book History of Greek Culture noted that the...
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Splitting Images: Communication in Classical Athens

Magazine article by Edith Hall; History Today, Vol. 44, July 1994

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Athens, Greece--History, Communication in politics--History, Democracy--History, Oratory--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...communication in classical Athens by Edith Hall Athens without its citizens...depictions of the archetypal myths and narratives of the...copywriters. In democratic Athens, there were no political...a phenomenon known in Greek as thorubos. Thorubos...
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Unlocking the Power of Myth

Magazine article by Victor Wishna; Humanities, Vol. 26, May/Jun 2005

Subjects:

Archaeology, Greek civilization, Historic buildings & sites, History, Troy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...unlock the power of myth. Reconstructed...show how integral myth and fact are to...understand a lot of the myths to understand...sided with the Greeks in the Trojan...Theseus and all the myths relating to early Athens are true, yet...that Athens is Athens," Riorden says...show Balkan and Greek influences, and...They removed the myth, and perhaps...
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Made in Myth

Magazine article by Tom Meaney; New Criterion, Vol. 22, June 2004

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Books--Book reviews, The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy (Book)--Book reviews

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Made in Myth. by Tom Meaney James...Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy. Princeton University...who study this strange Greek colony on the Italian...civilly on the sidelines of Greek civilization and fan the...neither to Sparta nor to Athens for cultural guidance...
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Was Plato the Only Greek Gay?

Magazine article by Kwasi Kwarteng; New Statesman, Vol. 128, August 23, 1999

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Civilization, Greek--Social aspects, Homosexuality--Social aspects, Philosophers--Attitudes, Plato--Attitudes

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...in the ancient Greek world. Although...distorted them. The myths about Greek homosexuality...ideas about the Greeks. All liberals love the Greeks. Greece, in...associated with Athens, just one city...enlightenment. Stories of Greek homosexual love...

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Don't Myth out on a Great Greek Break!

Newspaper article by David Kerr; The People (London, England), January 5, 1997

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Athens, Greece

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Dont Myth out on a Great Greek Break! by David Kerr...surprise come nightfall in Athens. Yes, of course, it...cost up to a tenner! Athens makes a great city break...most impressive sights of Athens are the great monuments...
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Don't Believe Greek Myths: I Have Met Hard Workers There

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 6, 2011

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Greek mythology

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Dont Believe Greek Myths: I Have Met Hard Workers...particular men - one Greek, the other British by...made of the modern-day Greek tragedy that has been unfolding in Athens over recent months before...commentators now speak of the Greeks as if they are somehow...to get on a plane to Athens this very day and catch...
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GREECE I S THE WORD; They May Be Short of Money, but the Greeks Are Rich in History, Myth and Stunning Scenery - as Joanna Lumley Found out in Her Quirky New ITV1 Travel Series

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 8, 2011

Subjects:

Lumley, Joanna, Television programs

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Short of Money, but the Greeks Are Rich in History, Myth and Stunning Scenery...the Parthenon outside Athens. Perched 50ft up a...strange. She was in Athens for her new four-part...travelogue, Joanna Lumleys Greek Odyssey, which starts...of gods, legends and myths, and I wanted to see...tapestry of nightclubs in Athens, tobacco-growing...
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Eye-Catching Site for Greek Myths

Newspaper article by Joe Szadkowski; The Washington Times, October 14, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Eye-catching site for Greek myths by Joe Szadkowski Byline: Joe Szadkowski Greek mythology has been ingrained...the study and enjoyment of Greek mythology," Mr. Skidmore...adventures while journeying to Athens to discover his true heritage...
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HOW THE GREEKS EXPLODED A MYTH; Nobody Likes Them and - Rightly So - They Don't Care. but Have the Ottocrat's Underdogs Shown Scots How to Be Winners?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 6, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HOW THE GREEKS EXPLODED A MYTH; Nobody Likes...the Alps as the Athens media went apoplectic...yesterday one of the Greek training routines...Except that the Greek one is conducted...attitude of the Greeks as a cornerstone...does not speak Greek but still gets...route home to Athens. The Germans...

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