Awards

• Winner of Translation Prize for non-fiction 2003 (United States)

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Author:   Marcel Detienne (Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor, The Johns Hopkins University) ,  Janet Lloyd (The Needham Research Institute)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780801869549

ISBN 10:   0801869544
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   24 February 2003
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   French

Table of Contents

"Contents: Author's Note Translator's Note Preface to the English-Language EditionPART I: From Myth to Mythology1. The Genealogy of a Body of Thought 2. What the Greeks Called ""Myth"" 3. Mythology, Writing and Forms of Historicity 4. The Practices on Myth-AnalysisPart II: Does Mythology Have a Sex?5. The Danaids among Themselves: Marriage Founded 6. A Kitchen Garden for Women, or How to Engender on One's Own 7. Misogynous Hestia, or the City in Its Autonomy 8. Even Talk Is in Some Ways DivinePART III: Between the Labyrinth and the Overturned Table9. An Ephebe and an Olive Tree 10. The Craine and the Labyrinth 11. The Finger of Orestes 12. At Lycaon's TablePART IV: Writing Mythology13. An Inventive Writing, the Voice of Orpheus, and the Games of Palamedes 14. The Double Writing of Mythology (between the Timaeus and the Critias) 15. Orpheus Rewrites the City GodsNotes Select Bibliography Index"

Reviews

<p>Dazzling display of erudition and sometimes brilliant insights... Advanced students of mythology will find illumination in these pages.--Penelope Murray Journal of Classics Teaching (01/01/2004)

<p>Anyone with an interest in either the theory of myth interpretation or any of the particular mythic complexes Detienne engages will find this a fascinating and provocative book.--Radcliffe G. Edmonds III Bryn Mawr Classical Review (01/01/0001)

<p> Anyone with an interest in either the theory of myth interpretation or any of the particular mythic complexes Detienne engages will find this a fascinating and provocative book. -- Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Dazzling display of erudition and sometimes brilliant insights... Advanced students of mythology will find illumination in these pages. -- Penelope Murray Journal of Classics Teaching Anyone with an interest in either the theory of myth interpretation or any of the particular mythic complexes Detienne engages will find this a fascinating and provocative book. -- Radcliffe G. Edmonds III Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Author Information

Marcel Detienne is the Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of L'Invention de la mythologie, Dionysos a ciel ouvert, Les Jardins d'Adonis, and many other books and articles, and editor of Transcrire les mythologies.

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