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This work brings together Richard Buxton's studies of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship between the two. Situating and contextualising topics and themes within the world of ancient Greece, he traces the intricate variations and retellings which they underwent in Greek antiquity.

Mythology, Greek --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Themes, motives --- Greece --- Civilization --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Mythology, Greek. --- Greek mythology --- Greek drama --- Civilization. --- Mythology, Greek - Themes, motives --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - Themes, motives --- Greece - Civilization

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Quiconque s’intéresse à la religion grecque antique utilise la thèse que Jean Rudhardt a publiée en 1958 : Notions fondamentales et actes constitutifs du culte. Étude préliminaire pour aider à la compréhension de la piété athénienne au IVe siècle. À cet ouvrage toujours indispensable sont venues s’ajouter de nombreuses publications qui continuaient d’explorer le champ du polythéisme grec en l’appréhendant de l’intérieur, dans le respect du contexte qui le voyait se déployer. Parmi les textes laissés en chantier par Jean Rudhardt, trois livres étaient en préparation, auxquels il aura travaillé jusqu’à sa mort, en juin 2003. Deux d’entre eux, inachevés mais parfaitement cohérents, représentent deux volets essentiels des travaux du savant genevois, l’un intitulé Essai sur la religion grecque, l’autre Recherches sur les Hymnes orphiques. Les lecteurs de Jean Rudhardt retrouveront la démarche philologique rigoureuse qui caractérise ses recherches depuis les Notions fondamentales. Au cœur de ces deux inédits est posée, dans une perspective interne, la question du sens. Cette question le faisait s’écarter de l’ensemble des spéculations modernes pour se tourner vers la considération du vocabulaire religieux des Grecs eux-mêmes. Une telle méthode d’investigation du polythéisme grec, mise en œuvre dès 1958, témoigne une fois encore de sa fraîcheur et de sa pertinence.

Orpheus (Greek mythology) --- Orphée (Mythologie grecque) --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religion --- History --- Histoire --- Mythology, Greek --- Gods, Greek, in literature --- Orpheus --- In literature --- Gods, Greek, in literature. --- Hymns, Greek (Classical) --- Mythology, Greek. --- Orpheus (Greek mythology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Orpheus (Greek mythology). --- Orphée (Mythologie grecque) --- Grèce --- Orpheus (Greek mythology) in literature --- Greek mythology --- History and criticism --- Religion. --- Orphic hymns --- In literature. --- Ορφεύς --- Арфей --- Arfeĭ --- Орфей --- Orfeĭ --- Orfej --- Orfeüs --- Orfeu --- Ορφέας --- Orpheas --- Orfeo --- Orphée --- 오르페우스 --- Orŭp'eusŭ --- אורפאוס --- Orfėjas --- Orpheusz --- Орфеј --- オルペウス --- Orfeusz --- Orfe --- 俄耳甫斯 --- Eerfusi --- Orpheus - (Greek mythological character) - In literature --- Orpheus - (Greek mythological character) --- Greece - Religion --- hymnes orphiques --- piété --- religion grecque antique --- Polythéisme --- Religion grecque

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This introduction considers whether the Trojan war actually took place and whether archaeologists have discovered the site of ancient Troy. "The Iliad, Homer's epic tale of the abduction of Helen and the decade-long Trojan War, has fascinated mankind for millennia. Even today, the war inspires countless articles and books, extensive archaeological excavations, movies, television documentaries, even souvenirs and collectibles. But while the ancients themselves believed that the Trojan War took place, scholars of the modern era have sometimes derided it as a piece of fiction. Combining archaeological data and textual analysis of ancient documents, this Very Short Introduction considers whether or not the war actually took place and whether archaeologists have really discovered the site of ancient Troy. To answer these questions, archaeologist and ancient historian Eric H. Cline examines various written sources, including the works of Homer, the Epic Cycle (fragments from other, now-lost Greek epics), classical plays, and Virgil's Aeneid. Throughout, the author tests the literary claims against the best modern archaeological evidence, showing for instance that Homer, who lived in the Iron Age, for the most part depicted Bronze Age warfare with accuracy. Cline also tells the engaging story of the archaeologists--Heinrich Schliemann and his successors Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Carl Blegen, and Manfred Korfmann--who found the long-vanished site of Troy through excavations at Hisarlik, Turkey. Drawing on evidence found at Hisarlik and elsewhere, Cline concludes that a war or wars in the vicinity of Troy probably did take place during the Late Bronze Age, forming the nucleus of a story that was handed down orally for centuries until put into final form by Homer. But Cline suggests that, even allowing that a Trojan War took place, it probably was not fought because of Helen's abduction, though such an incident may have provided the justification for a war actually fought for more compelling economic and political motives."--Publisher's description.

Trojan War. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Guerre de Troie --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Troy (Extinct city) --- Turkey --- Greece --- Troie (Ville ancienne) --- Turquie --- Grèce --- Antiquities. --- Civilization --- Antiquités --- Civilisation --- Trojan War --- Antiquities --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Grèce --- Antiquités --- 922.9 --- oudheid --- Troje --- oorlog --- Mythology, Greek --- geschiedenis - Ilion, Troje --- Ilion (Extinct city) --- Ilium (Extinct city) --- Troia (Extinct city) --- Troja (Extinct city) --- Trovaharabesi (Extinct city) --- Troy (Ancient city) --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Turkey - Troy (Extinct city) --- Turkey - Antiquities --- Greece - Civilization - To 146 B.C.

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On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece-but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and expectations of paying clients. Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, Giuliani describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which the images were created. He reveals that developments in Greek vase painting were driven as much by the times as they were by tradition-the better-known the story, the less leeway the artists had in interpreting it. As literary culture transformed from an oral tradition, in which stories were always in flux, to the stability of written texts, the images produced by artists eventually became nothing more than illustrations of canonical works. At once a work of cultural and art history, Image and Myth builds a new way of understanding the visual culture of ancient Greece.

Art, Greek --- Narrative art --- Mythology, Greek, in art. --- Vase-painting, Greek. --- Themes, motives. --- Art grec --- Art narratif --- Mythologie grecque dans l'art --- Peinture de vases grecque --- Thèmes, motifs --- Art, Narrative --- Narrative art (Visual arts) --- Art genres --- Greek art --- Art, Aegean --- Classical antiquities --- Art, Greco-Bactrian --- Greek vase-painting --- greek art, greece, myth, mythology, classical archeology, translator, translation, classics, images, imagery, pictures, antiquity, past, history, historical research, museum, vase, archaic, hellenistic, stability, artists, intellectual, social, cultural, themes, narrative, achilles, polyphemus, epic, folktale, muses, hektor, troy, odyssey, fidelity, athens, reconstruction.