Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Plymouth
Lexington Books
Lanham, Maryland ; c2010
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| Series: | Greek studies (Lexington Books) : interdisciplinary approaches
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
