The Early Amazons: Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent MythBRILL, 27.08.2015 - 473 Seiten The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
I Interpretations of the Amazon myth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries | 21 |
II The Homeric formula | 145 |
III Penthesileia | 195 |
IV Priamos and Bellerophontes | 289 |
V Herakles and the sixthcentury development of the Amazon motif | 349 |
Conclusions | 431 |
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Plates | 475 |
RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECOROMAN WORLD | 490 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
The Early Amazons: Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth J. H. Blok Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1995 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achaians Achilles and Penthesileia Ainia Aithiopis Amazon motif Amazon myth Amazon queen Amazonen Amazones antianeirai Amazonology Amazonomachy analysis ancient Antiope archaic argument Artemis aspect Athenian Athens Attic battle Bellerophontes black-figure black-figure vase painting Bothmer Burkert Chimaira combat connection context Creuzer cult culture discussion duel elements Ephesos epic epithet eroos ethnic designation etymology Exekias female femininity FGrHist fighting figure formula function girdle goddess Greek Hektor Heraklean Amazonomachy Herakles hero Herodotos heroic hexameter Hittite Homeric hoplite Iliad indicate inscriptions interpretation K.O. Müller killed Klügmann later LIMC Lykians maenads male masculine material mythical mythology narrative nature non-Greek opponents original passage Pegasos Priamos refers regarded relation representations ritual role Sauromatians scene scholars seventh century sexual shield sixth century Skythian story structure Symbolik testimonia theme Themiskyra Thermodon Thersites Theseus Thrake Thrakian thumos tion Tiryns tradition Trojan Troy Tyrrell vase painting visual warriors women zons