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- catalog abstract ""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 Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Mythe et histoire dans l'antiquité grecque. English".
- catalog contributor b12908062.
- catalog coverage "Cyrene (Extinct City)".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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 Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-171) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction to the English edition / by Daniel W. Berman -- I. Illusions of mythology. The substance of myth and mythology ; Contrasts and comparisons ; Greek nomenclature? ; The production of symbolic discourse -- II. The foundation narrative of Cyrene. Pindar and the time of performance ; Pythian 4: the birth of a land ; Pythian 9: a pastoral civilization ; Pythian 5: calling all heroes! ; Herodotus and the chronology of history ; Callimachus and Apollonius: a return to poetry -- III. Neither myth nor history. Strabo's Homer ; Plato and fiction.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 178 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691114587 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Cyrene (Extinct City)".
- catalog subject "292.1/3 21".
- catalog subject "BL783 .C3513 2003".
- catalog subject "Mythology, Greek.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction to the English edition / by Daniel W. Berman -- I. Illusions of mythology. The substance of myth and mythology ; Contrasts and comparisons ; Greek nomenclature? ; The production of symbolic discourse -- II. The foundation narrative of Cyrene. Pindar and the time of performance ; Pythian 4: the birth of a land ; Pythian 9: a pastoral civilization ; Pythian 5: calling all heroes! ; Herodotus and the chronology of history ; Callimachus and Apollonius: a return to poetry -- III. Neither myth nor history. Strabo's Homer ; Plato and fiction.".
- catalog title "Myth and history in ancient Greece : the symbolic creation of a colony / Claude Calame ; translated by Daniel W. Berman.".
- catalog title "Mythe et histoire dans l'antiquité grecque. English".
- catalog type "text".