The writing of Orpheus : Greek myth in cultural context / Marcel Detienne ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
| Author/creator | Detienne, Marcel |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, ©2003. |
| Description | xv, 199 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Ecriture 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001006673 |
| ISBN | 0801869544 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | BL783 .D4813 2003 | Due 09/26/2026 | Want This? |