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Paperback Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action Book

ISBN: 0195067193

ISBN13: 9780195067194

Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action

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This book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them. In particular, it examines how myths encode thoughts on ritual, the code of the warrior, marriage, and politics. Combining traditional historical and literary criticism with the approaches of anthropologists, feminist critics, and cultural historians, the authors study specific examples of the epic and tragedy, as well as funeral orations and the Parthenon...

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