The writing of Orpheus : Greek myth in cultural context / Marcel Detienne ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

Author/creator Detienne, Marcel
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, ©2003.
Descriptionxv, 199 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleEcriture d'Orphee. English
Contents The genealogy of a body of thought -- What the Greeks called "myth" -- Mythology, writing, and forms of historicity -- The practices of myth-analysis -- The Danaids among themselves : Marriage founded upon violence -- A kitchen garden for women, or how to engender on one's own -- Misogynous Hestia, or the city in its autonomy -- Even talk is in some ways divine -- An ephebe and an olive tree -- The crane and the labyrinth -- The finger of Orestes -- At Lycaon's table -- An inventive writing, the voice of Orpheus, and the games of Palamedes -- The double writing of mythology (between the Timaeus and the Critias) -- Orpheus rewrites the city gods.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index.
LCCN 2001006673
ISBN0801869544 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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