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Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion
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2010
Summary
Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual and social level as manifested in modes of thought and behavior and expressed in language, beliefs, ritual, and iconography. The book is divided into five parts: color semantics, appearance and concealment, eye sight/insight, being and beyond, and cult. Each subdivision contains a wealth of information for the reader, ranging from detailed explanations of the interplay between lexical categories that denote darkness and light and the effect of blindness on metaphysical matters to the qualities of cultic light. This unique volume will be of interest to readers in fields as diverse as ancient Greek history, metaphysics, and iconography.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3898-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3901-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
304
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One The Significance (or Insignificance) of Blackness in Mythological Names No access
Chapter Two Dark Skin and Dark Deeds No access
Chapter Three Brightness and Darkness inPindar’s Pythian 3 No access
Chapter Four S-light Anomaly No access
Chapter Five The Light Imagery of Divine Manifestation in Homer No access
Chapter Six Trojan Night No access
Chapter Seven Tithonus and Phaon No access
Chapter Eight Erinyes as Creatures of Darkness No access
Chapter Nine Journey into Light and Honors inDarkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus No access
Chapter Ten Hephaestus in Homer’s Epics No access
Chapter Eleven To See or Not to See No access
Chapter Twelve Blindness as Punishment* No access
Chapter Thirteen Light and Darkness and Archaic Greek Cosmography No access
Chapter Fourteen Mystic Light and Near-Death No access
Chapter Fifteen Dark-Winged Nyx and the Bright-Winged Eros in Aristophanes ’“Orphic” Cosmogony No access
Chapter Sixteen The Bright Cypress of the “Orphic ”Gold Tablets No access
Chapter Seventeen Light and Darkness in Dionysiac Rituals as Illustrated on Attic Vase Paintings of the 5th Century BCE No access
Chapter Eighteen Light and Lighting Equipment in the Eleusinian Mysteries No access
Chapter Nineteen Magic Lamps, Luminous Dreams No access
