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1 online resource (x, 186 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cover -- Title Pages -- Table of Contents -- Maps and figures -- Introduction: The spread of the cult of heroes, their encounter with goddesses ... -- 1 Setting the stage for the encounter: The world of Old Europe and subsequent cultures -- Athena's divine genealogy-On the longevity of Old European soundings -- Stage 1: Old Europe and its cultural heritage -- The ancient Europeans and their Pelasgian descendants -- Stage 2: The subsequent cultures ('daughters') of Old Europe (Minoan, Cycladic, Pelasgian) -- Stage 3: The emergence of Greek culture |
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(Ii) The pre-Greek source for the name of Odysseus -- (iii) The maritime environment -- (iv) The pre-Greek sources for the musical instruments of the bards -- (v) The pre-Greek sources for the "Greek" hexameter -- (vi) The skills of an adventurer vis-à-vis the vicissitudes of life -- Odysseus and his patron Athena: An intimate companionship -- Seafaring and shipbuilding: On the longevity of pre-Greek traditions -- Old European soundings-The hexameter and its pre-Greek origins -- 7 Heroes and their role in historiography-Herodotus and his mytho-historical world |
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2 Pre-Greek goddesses versus Indo-European gods: Confrontation, crisis and solution of crisis -- Proliferation of the concept of divine femininity: From the One-ness to multiplicity ... -- Processes of cultural fusion of two contradicting worldviews -- The goddess Gaia and her intervention in the power struggle among the gods -- Demeter and Persephone: Overcoming male humiliation -- 3 The protagonist on stage: The pre-Hellenic supergoddess Athena -- From the mistress of the Acropolis to the icon divinity of the Athenian state -- Athena's main attribute, the owl, and its significance |
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5 The advent of heroes and their image in poetry-From oral performance to the epic genre -- An archaic variety of epic poetry in the Indo-European homeland -- The encounter with Athena-Heroes under the patronage of goddesses -- Heroes in epic poetry of the archaic era -- Interactional patterns of gods and heroes in Greek theater -- 6 Odysseus, the deviant figure in epic literature-Searching for "heroes" in the world of Old Euro -- Features of deviant epic poetry, the Odyssey, and of its protagonist, Odysseus -- (i) Debating Homer's authorship of the Odyssey |
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Athena and her gift of the olive tree -- Athena and her gift of weaving -- The political impact of myth: Athena and Erechtheus in the foundation myth of the Athenian state -- 4 The emergence of the cult of heroes among pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe-Manifestations ... -- Roots of a warrior caste among steppe pastoralists -- Early affiliations of the warrior caste with divine patronage -- Visual manifestation of the cult of heroes -- The Indo-European elite in action: Taking control over the trade center at Varna |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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How to relate to experienced time and how to record it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Hero worship -- History
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Hero worship.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
LaBGC, author
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| ISBN |
3447391022 |
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9783447391023 |
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