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L'invention de la mythologie

Author : Marcel Detienne
Publisher : Editions Gallimard
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book L'invention de la mythologie written by Marcel Detienne and published by Editions Gallimard. This book was released on 1981 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qui a inventé la mythologie ? Quelles sont les frontières de ce territoire où des histoires inoubliables et le plaisir de les conter semblent inséparables de l'exégèse et du désir de les interpréter ? S'il est vrai qu'un mythe est perçu comme mythe par tout lecteur dans le monde entier, pourquoi la science des mythes est-elle toujours impuissante à différencier avec rigueur un conte d'un mythe ? Poisson soluble dans les eaux de la mythologie, le mythe est une forme introuvable : ni genre littéraire, ni récit spécifique. Mais parler de la mythologie, hier et aujourd'hui, c'est toujours, plus ou moins explicitement, parler grec ou depuis la Grèce. D'où l'urgence d'une enquête généalogique pour repenser la mythologie comme objet de savoir autant que de culture. Et se découvrent les procédures d'exclusion portées par un vocabulaire du scandale, convoquant toutes les formes d'altérité : depuis les "gueux du mythe" de l'ancienne Samos, le "mytheux" de la mémoire incontinente dénoncé par Thucydide jusqu'à l'incroyable, le sauvage, l'absurde ou l'obscène qui mobilisent les responsables de la science des mythes dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle. Des gestes de partage répétés et successifs où le mythologique, chaque fois, se déplace, change de forme et de contenu. Mais où, dans le même temps, la mythologie s'invente entre la fascination exercée sur les modernes par le Grec à deux têtes et la rumeur incantatoire des mythologues rêvés par la cité platonicienne, enfants aux cheveux blancs, et chargés de conjurer la menace d'une tradition rompue. Inventivité de la mythologie qui se raconte dans une histoire où interfèrent les pratiques de l'écriture, les discours sur la tradition et les échanges entre la mémoire et l'oubli.

Myths and Mythologies

Author : Jeppe Sinding Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315475766
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Mythologies written by Jeppe Sinding Jensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all cultures and at all times, humans have told stories about where they came from, who they are and how they should live their lives. 'Myths and Mythologies' brings together the key classic and contemporary writings - philosophical, psychological, sociological, semiological and cognitivist - on myth. To the insider, myths contain truth, revelation and a 'history of ourselves'; to the outsider, a culture s myths can be seen as the product of foolish, infantile and wishful thinking. Myths tell us about specific cultures, about human creativity, and how narrative shapes and reflects understanding. The 'Reader' is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the impact of narrative on human culture and the meaning of truth in religious language.

The Writing of Orpheus

Author : Marcel Detienne
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801869549
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book The Writing of Orpheus written by Marcel Detienne and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Translation Prize for non-fiction from the French-American Foundation. Son of a mortal king and an immortal Muse, Orpheus possessed a gift for music unmatched among humans; with his lyre he could turn the course of rivers, drown the fatal song of the Sirens, and charm the denizens of the underworld. The allure of his music speaks through the myths and stories of the Greeks and Romans, who tell of his mysterious compositions, with lyrics that only the initiated could understand after undergoing secret rites. Where readers of subsequent centuries have been content to understand these mysteries as the stuff of obfuscation or mere folderol, Marcel Detienne finds in the writing of Orpheus a key to the thinking of the ancient Greeks. A profound understanding of ancient Greek myth in its cultural contexts allows Detienne to recover a cultural system from fragments and ephemera—to reproduce, with sensitivity to variation and nuance, the full richness of the mythological repertoire flowing from the writing of Orpheus. His investigation moves from the Orphic writings to broader mysteries: how Greek gods became myths, how myths informed later religious thinking, and how myths have come into play in polemics between competing religions. An eloquent answer to some of the most vexing questions about the myth of Orpheus and its far-reaching ramifications through time and culture, Detienne's work ultimately offers a major rethinking of Greek mythology.

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Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 2738170501
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)

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Twentieth Century Mythologies

Author : Daniel Dubuisson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317491602
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Mythologies written by Daniel Dubuisson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths have intrigued scholars throughout history. 'Twentieth Century Mythologies' traces the study of myth over the last century, presenting the key theories of mythology and critiquing traditional definitions of myth. The volume presents the work of influential scholars in mythology: the noted Indo-Europeanist Georges Dumezil, the structuralist anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, and the historian of religions Mircea Eliade. 'Twentieth Century Mythologies' is an indispensable resource for scholars of religion and myth and for all those interested in the history of ideas.

Myth

Author : Gregory Schrempp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253341587
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Myth written by Gregory Schrempp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It was inspired by a revisiting of the influential mid-century work Myth: A Symposium (edited by Thomas Sebeok). A systematic introduction and 15 contributions from a wide spectrum of disciplines offer a range of views on past myth study and suggest directions for the future. Contributors blend theoretical analysis with richly documented historical, ethnographic, and literary illustrations and examples drawn from Native American, classical, medieval, and modern sources.

International Law and the Quest for its Implementation. Le droit international et la quête de sa mise en oeuvre

Author : Marcelo Kohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047430581
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book International Law and the Quest for its Implementation. Le droit international et la quête de sa mise en oeuvre written by Marcelo Kohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Liber Amicorum appears on the occasion of Professor Vera Gowlland-Debbas' retirement from the Graduate Institute. It includes contributions by her colleagues and friends from distinguished universities and international institutions. It covers different fields in which she has excelled. This collective work is divided into three main sections. The first section examines matters concerning the law of the United Nations. The second section is devoted to human rights and international humanitarian law. The third section addresses issues related to law-making, compliance with international law and the peaceful settlement of disputes. The result is a collection of stimulating analysis of most of the topical problems of international law. The contributions are in both English and French.

Fragmented Memory

Author : Nicoletta Bruno
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110742047
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Fragmented Memory written by Nicoletta Bruno and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance, in addition to the unavoidable ambiguity caused by time, is one of the main guilty parties in the transmission of ancient texts – or lack thereof. However, the same cannot be said for what concerns the mechanisms of selection and loss of historical and literary memory, where the voluntary awareness of obscuring is often part of a precise aim, thus leading the cultural memory of a literate society to become fragmented. The present volume explores the devices and criteria of selection and loss in Ancient and Medieval texts and the subsequent fragmentation of such literature, but it also addresses the questions of the damnatio memoriae, of literary strategies such as reticence and omission, as well as of known texts deemed lost but re-found thanks to state-of-the-art methods in digitization. The many and diverse nuances of the concepts of omission, selection, and loss throughout Ancient and Medieval literature and history are illustrated through a number of case studies in the four sections of this volume, each examining a different facet of the topic: ‘Mechanisms and criteria of textual loss and selection’, ‘Lost texts re-discovered’, ‘Voluntary omissions and desire for oblivion’, and ‘Re-working the known’.

The Greeks and Us

Author : Marcel Detienne
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745639003
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Greeks and Us written by Marcel Detienne and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human race is all too pre-disposed to think in terms of us and them. Europeans have always laid claim to the Ancient Greeks they are our Greeks, our ancestors but their legacy reaches further than we could ever imagine. Their influence stretches from the Japanese to the Cossacks, from Ancient Rome to Indonesia. In this path-breaking new volume, the great French historian Marcel Detienne focuses on Eurocentric approaches which have trumpeted the Greeks and their democratic practices as our ancestors and the superiority of the Western tradition to which they gave rise. He argues that such approaches can be seen as narrow-minded and often covertly nationalistic. Detienne advocates what he calls comparative anthropology which sets out to illuminate the comparisons and contrasts between the beliefs, practices and institutions of different ancient and modern societies. Detienne aims to put the Greeks in perspective among other civilisations and also to look afresh at questions of political structure, literacy, nationhood, intellect and mythology. The work of Marcel Detienne has made an enormous impact on our thinking about the Greeks in areas such as rationality, literacy and mythology, and in this new volume he challenges once again our conception of the Greeks and their impact on the modern world.

Para-Narratives in the Odyssey

Author : Maureen Alden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192524275
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Para-Narratives in the Odyssey written by Maureen Alden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelated to the central story: the main plot of Odysseus' return to Ithaca is complicated by myriad secondary narratives related by the poet and his characters, including Odysseus' own fantastic tales of Lotus Eaters, Sirens, and cannibal giants. Although these 'para-narratives' are a source of pleasure and entertainment in their own right, each also has a special relevance to its immediate context, elucidating Odysseus' predicament and also subtly influencing and guiding the audience's reception of the main story. By exploring variations on the basic story-shape, drawing on familiar tales, anecdotes, and mythology, or inserting analogous situations, they create illuminating parallels to the main narrative and prompt specific responses in readers or listeners. This is the case even when details are suppressed or altered, as the audience may still experience the reverberations of the better-known version of the tradition, and it also applies to the characters themselves, who are often provided with a model of action for imitation or avoidance in their immediate contexts.

By Being, It Is

Author : Nestor Luis Cordero
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930972415
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book By Being, It Is written by Nestor Luis Cordero and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In By Being, It Is, Nestor-Luis Cordero explores the richness of this Parmenidean thesis, which became the cornerstone of philosophy. Cordero''s textual analysis of the poem''s fragments reveals that Parmenides'' intention was highly didactic. His poem applied, for the first time, an explicative method that deduced consequences from a true axiom: by being, it is. To ignore this reality meant to be a victim of opinions. This volume explains how without this conceptual base, all later ontology would have been impossible. This book offers a clear and concise introduction to the Parmenidean doctrine and helps the reader appreciate the imperative value of Parmenides''s claim that "e;by being, it is."e;

Exercices d'histoire des religions

Author : Philippe Borgeaud
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900431914X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Exercices d'histoire des religions written by Philippe Borgeaud and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exercices d’histoire des religions is a collection of the most important articles published by Philippe Borgeaud during his career as the professor of history of religions at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). These nineteen studies showcase the many reflections of the Swiss scholar of religion on the categories and tools used to describe and compare such evanescent concepts as “religions”, “myths” and “rituals”, and his methodology for a critical and comparative study of ancient and modern religions. Through them, readers will gain a clear understanding of the importance such an approach can wield in the contemporary discussions and dissents about religions. Exercices d’histoire des religions rassemble les articles les plus importants publiés par Philippe Borgeaud durant sa carrière en tant que professeur d’histoire des religions à l’Université de Genève. Ces dix-neuf enquêtes illustrent les réflexions du savant suisse sur les outils et catégories utilisés par l’historien des religions pour décrire et comparer des concepts aussi évanescents que les « religions », les « mythes » ou les « rituels », et sur le rôle joué par les émotions dans leur élaboration. À travers eux, le lecteur est amené à découvrir la méthode développée par Philippe Borgeaud pour étudier de manière critique et comparative les religions antiques et modernes, une approche sans doute fondamentale pour mieux saisir les discussions et controverses contemporaines sur ce sujet.

The Story of Myth

Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989554
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Myth written by Sarah Iles Johnston and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek myths have long been admired as beautiful, thrilling stories but dismissed as serious objects of belief. For centuries scholars have held that Greek epics, tragedies, and the other compelling works handed down to us obscure the “real” myths that supposedly inspired them. Instead of joining in this pursuit of hidden meanings, Sarah Iles Johnston argues that the very nature of myths as stories—as gripping tales starring vivid characters—enabled them to do their most important work: to create and sustain belief in the gods and heroes who formed the basis of Greek religion. By drawing on work in narratology, sociology, and folklore studies, and by comparing Greek myths not only to the myths of other cultures but also to fairy tales, ghost stories, fantasy works, modern novels, and television series, The Story of Myth reveals the subtle yet powerful ways in which these ancient Greek tales forged enduring bonds between their characters and their audiences, created coherent story-worlds, and made it possible to believe in extraordinary gods. Johnston captures what makes Greek myths distinctively Greek, but simultaneously brings these myths into a broader conversation about how the stories told by all cultures affect our shared view of the cosmos and the creatures who inhabit it.

Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity

Author : Jonathan M. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521789998
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity written by Jonathan M. Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Jonathan Hall seeks to demonstrate that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural groups, but social groups whose 'origins' in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. Adopting an explicitly anthropological point of view, he examines the evidence of literature, archaeology and linguistics to elucidate the nature of ethnic identity in ancient Greece. Rather than treating Greek ethnic groups as 'natural' or 'essential' - let alone 'racial' - entities, he emphasises the active, constructive and dynamic role of ethnography, genealogy, material culture and language in shaping ethnic consciousness. An introductory chapter outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.

The Complete World of Greek Mythology (The Complete Series)

Author : Richard Buxton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500776407
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Complete World of Greek Mythology (The Complete Series) written by Richard Buxton and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2004-06-28 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full, authoritative, and wholly engaging account of these endlessly fascinating tales and of the ancient society in which they were created. Greek myths are among the most complex and influential stories ever told. From the first millennium BC until today, the myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpretations. They can be found in the latest movies and television shows and in software for interactive computer games. This book combines a retelling of Greek myths with a comprehensive account of the world in which they developed—their themes, their relevance to Greek religion and society, and their relationship to the landscape. "Contexts, Sources, Meanings" describes the main literary and artistic sources for Greek myths, and their contexts, such as ritual and theater. "Myths of Origin" includes stories about the beginning of the cosmos, the origins of the gods, the first humans, and the founding of communities. "The Olympians: Power, Honor, Sexuality" examines the activities of all the main divinities. "Heroic exploits" concentrates on the adventures of Perseus, Jason, Herakles, and other heroes. "Family sagas" explores the dramas and catastrophes that befall heroes and heroines. "A Landscape of Myths" sets the stories within the context of the mountains, caves, seas, and rivers of Greece, Crete, Troy, and the Underworld. "Greek Myths after the Greeks" describes the rich tradition of retelling, from the Romans, through the Renaissance, to the twenty-first century. Complemented by lavish illustrations, genealogical tables, box features, and specially commissioned drawings, this will be an essential book for anyone interested in these classic tales and in the world of the ancient Greeks.

Blessings in Disguise, Or, The Morality of Evil

Author : Jean Starobinski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674076471
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (764 download)

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Download or read book Blessings in Disguise, Or, The Morality of Evil written by Jean Starobinski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the task of art, he contends, to make the most of these conventions, to use the very disguises of civilization to counter the barbarism they mask. Tracing this idea through seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, Starobinski charts the historical and intellectual limits of criticism itself.".

Greek Mythology

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521888581
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Greek Mythology written by Claude Calame and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the meaning of Greek myths can only be studied according to their artistic forms of expression. Using myths such as those of Persephone, Bellerophon, Helen and Teiresias, Claude Calame surveys Greek mythology as a category inseparable from the literature in which so much of it is found.