Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion
Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion
edited by Menelaos Christopoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk
- Plymouth Lexington Books Lanham, Maryland ; c2010
- xx, 304 p. 24 cm.
- Greek studies (Lexington Books) : interdisciplinary approaches .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names / Richard Buxton -- Dark skin and dark deeds; Danaides and Aigyptioi in a culture of light / Efimia D. Karakantza -- Brightness and darkness in Pindarβsss Pythian 3. Aigla-Coronis-Arsinoe and her initiatory experience / Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos -- S-light anomaly; dark brightness in Euripidesβss Medea / Spyros Syropoulos -- The light imagery of divine manifestation in Homer / Soteroula Constantinidou -- Trojan night / Ken Dowden -- Tithonus and Phaon. mythical allegories of light and darkness in Sapphoβsss poetry / Avgi Maggel -- Erinyes as creatures of darkness / Mercedes Aguirre -- Journey into light and honors in darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus / Sebastian Anderson -- Hephaistos: god of light / Isabelle Ratinaud -- Blind people and blindness in ancient Greek myth / Franc?oise Le?toublon -- Blindness as punishment / Ariadni Gartziou-Tatti -- Light and darkness and archaic cosmogony / Nanno Marinatos -- Mystic light and near-death experience / Richard Seaford -- Dark winged Nyx and bright winged eros in Aristophanesβss Orphic cosmogony. the birds, 693-703 / Menelaos Christopoulos -- The bright cypress of the orphic golden tablets: direction and illumination in myths of the underworld / Radcliffe G. Edmonds -- Light and darkness in Dionysiac rituals as illustrated on attic vase paintings of the 5th century BC / Dimitris Paleothodoros -- Light and lighting equipment in the Eleusinian mysteries. symbolism and ritual use / Ioanna Patera -- Magic lamps, luminous dreams: lamps in PGM recipes / Athanassia Zografou.
9780739138984
Ελληνική λογοτεχνία--Ιστορία και κριτική
Μυθολογία, Ελληνική στη λογοτεχνία
Φως--Θρησκευτικές απόψεις
Μυθολογία, Ελληνική
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names / Richard Buxton -- Dark skin and dark deeds; Danaides and Aigyptioi in a culture of light / Efimia D. Karakantza -- Brightness and darkness in Pindarβsss Pythian 3. Aigla-Coronis-Arsinoe and her initiatory experience / Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos -- S-light anomaly; dark brightness in Euripidesβss Medea / Spyros Syropoulos -- The light imagery of divine manifestation in Homer / Soteroula Constantinidou -- Trojan night / Ken Dowden -- Tithonus and Phaon. mythical allegories of light and darkness in Sapphoβsss poetry / Avgi Maggel -- Erinyes as creatures of darkness / Mercedes Aguirre -- Journey into light and honors in darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus / Sebastian Anderson -- Hephaistos: god of light / Isabelle Ratinaud -- Blind people and blindness in ancient Greek myth / Franc?oise Le?toublon -- Blindness as punishment / Ariadni Gartziou-Tatti -- Light and darkness and archaic cosmogony / Nanno Marinatos -- Mystic light and near-death experience / Richard Seaford -- Dark winged Nyx and bright winged eros in Aristophanesβss Orphic cosmogony. the birds, 693-703 / Menelaos Christopoulos -- The bright cypress of the orphic golden tablets: direction and illumination in myths of the underworld / Radcliffe G. Edmonds -- Light and darkness in Dionysiac rituals as illustrated on attic vase paintings of the 5th century BC / Dimitris Paleothodoros -- Light and lighting equipment in the Eleusinian mysteries. symbolism and ritual use / Ioanna Patera -- Magic lamps, luminous dreams: lamps in PGM recipes / Athanassia Zografou.
9780739138984
Ελληνική λογοτεχνία--Ιστορία και κριτική
Μυθολογία, Ελληνική στη λογοτεχνία
Φως--Θρησκευτικές απόψεις
Μυθολογία, Ελληνική
