Deconstructing Spaces of Myth: From Derrida’s ‘counterfeit’ to Deleuze’s and Guattari’s ‘origami’

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gkaragkounis, Thanos
• Μορφή: Online
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Centre for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity 2013
• Θέματα: Medicine, Plants, Vegetables, Fruits, Disease, Magic, Religion; Greek mythology; Oresteia, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra; disbelief, iamata, epigraphic evidence, literary evidence, divine punishment, incubation; Iphigénie, Iphigénie en Tauride, sacrifice, protéleia, prémices; Asclepius, Justin martyr, Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Contra Celsum, euhemerism; Hercules; Steve Moore; comics; myth;counterfeit;origami; repetition; Agamemnon, hero, Kassandra, Amyklai, Zeus; Asclepius, testimonials, medical treatment, Aristides; Heracles’ private life; Love; Family; Man /woman; Mythic parallels; greek mythology; Agamemnon, history, rhetoric, politics; Ηρακλής; Γέλα; Ακράγας; Ρόδος; Κρήτη; Snake, ambiguity, health in antiquity, healing cult, symbolism, ancient medicine, snake imagery, manipulation

The article is an attempt to deconstruct the concept of myth as it is drawn out by a variety of authors as diverse as Vernant, Lévi-Strauss and Nietzsche. Specifically, it deconstructs the three-fold conception of myth, first, of ‘closeness’, exemplified by Vernant’s structural depiction of Greek my...