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The Early Amazons : Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth

by: Blok, J.H.

Price: 238,00 EURO

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Category: Mythology / Ancient Religion
Code: 11885
ISBN-13: 9789004100770 / 978-90-04-10077-0
ISBN-10: 9004100776 / 90-04-10077-6
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Place: Leiden
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 473
Book Condition: New
Comments: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 120 / xxi, 473 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

The Early Amazons
Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth
Series:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, Volume: 120
Author: Josine Blok
The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history.
The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics.
The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons.

 

Preliminary material
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: i–xxi

INTRODUCTION
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: PART I–19

INTERPRETATIONS OF THE AMAZON MYTH IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: 21–143

THE HOMERIC FORMULA
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: PART II–193

PENTHESILEIA
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: 195–288

PRIAMOS AND BELLEROPHONTES
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: 289–347

HERAKLES AND THE SIXTH-CENTURY DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMAZON MOTIF
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: 349–430

CONCLUSIONS
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: 431–442

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: 443–460

INDEX
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: 461–473

PLATES
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: 475–488

RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD
Author: Josine Blok
Pages: 490
 
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The Early Amazons : Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth

by: Blok, J.H.

  • ISBN-13: 9789004100770 / 978-90-04-10077-0
  • ISBN-03: 9004100776 / 90-04-10077-6
  • E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1994

Price: 238,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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