Myth, ritual, memory, and exchange : essays in Greek literature and culture / John Gould.

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1. Ancient poetry and modern readers -- 2. Hiketeia Addendum (2000) -- 3. Dramatic character and 'Human intelligibility' in Greek tragedy -- 4. Law, custom, and myth : aspects of the social position of women in classical Athens -- 5. Homeric epic and the tragic moment -- 6. Tragedy in performance -- 7. On making sense of Greek religion -- 8. Mothers' Day : a note on Euripides' Bacchae -- 9. The language of Oedipus -- 10. Oedipus and Antigone at Thebes -- 11. Dionysus and the Hippy Convoy : ritual, myth, and metaphor in the cult of Dionysus -- 12. Give and take in Herodotus -- 13. Plato and performance -- 14. 'And tell sad stories of the deaths of kings' " Greek tragic drama as narrative -- 15. The idea of society in the Iliad Addendum (2000) -- 16. Herodotus and religion -- 17. Tragedy and collective experience -- 18. Myth, memory, and the chorus : 'Tragic rationality'.

"This book contains the most significant essays written by John Gould over the last thirty years (some now regarded as classics), including several not previously published. Newly revised, with reference both to corroborative material and to subsequent treatments and discussion of significantly different approaches to the same topics, these papers offer a marked coherence of focus and argument which informs the whole volume. Most of the essays arise out of the experience of teaching and address problems, puzzles, and misunderstandings encountered by students. The heart of the book is a concern with the interaction between the cultural assumptions and world-view of ancient (and often of modern) Greeks and their literature. An overriding interest in anthropological fieldwork runs through the book and helps to shape its argument."--Οπισθόφυλο.