| Description |
viii, 341 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Mortals and immortales : the body of the divine -- A "beautiful death" and the disfigured corpse in Homeric epic -- India, Mesopotamia, Greece : three ideologies of death -- Panta Kala : from Homer to Simonides -- Feminine figues of death in Greece -- Death in the eyes : Gorgo, figure of the other -- In the mirror of Medusa -- From the "presentification" of the invisible to the imitation of appearance -- The birth of images -- Psuche : simulacrum of the body or image of the divine? -- The figure and functions of Artemis in myth and cult -- Artemis and rites of sacrifice, initiation, and marriage -- Between shame and glory : the identity of the young Spartan warrior -- Artemis and preliminary sacrifice in combat -- History and psychology -- Greek religion, ancient religions -- A general theory of sacrifice and the slaying of the victims in the Greek Thusia -- Speech and mute signs -- The individual within the city-state |
| Analysis |
Civilization History, B.C. 775 - A.D. 323 |
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Greece |
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Civilization History, B.C. 775 - A.D. 323 |
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Greece |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
| Subject |
Greece -- Religion.
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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| Author |
Zeitlin, Froma I.
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| LC no. |
90046651 |
| ISBN |
0691068313 (cloth) |
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