Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual
Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis
Published on 22. August 2024
Book
Hardback
510 pages
978-90-04-67973-3 (ISBN)
Description
The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual - written in honor of Professor Demetrios Yatromanolakis, a pioneering and influential scholar - shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures in antiquity; the interplay between art (vase-painting and sculpture) and broader ideological developments/ mentalities in antiquity; ritual in ancient Greek contexts; political ideologies and religion; history of scholarship, textual criticism/critical editing, and hermeneutics; the reception of myth and of archaic and classical Greek culture and philosophy in diverse discursive, mediatic, and sociocultural contexts - from early twentieth-century painting, to modernism and the avant-garde, to Foucauldian thought.
Reviews / Votes
"By weaving together contributions from anthropology, classics, aesthetics, intellectual history, and critical theory, this Festschrift does not intimidate; it invites to think anew. [...] Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual is not only a tribute to a singular scholar. It is also a methodological laboratory, a set of experiments that demonstrate how to think across traditions, genres, and epochs. Readers will not come away with the sense that they must master everything at once; rather, they will find models for how to let seemingly distant practices speak to one another. In that sense, the book is not just for the rare polymath of the kind of Demetrios Yatromanolakis, but for everyone who is willing to imagine new paths of inquiry."Alberto Parisi, in Eirene, Studia Graeca et Latina, LXI, 2025, I-II, pp. 286-287.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
839 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-67973-3 (9789004679733)
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Burkhard Fehr is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Hamburg. His numerous books and studies focus on ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture and their wider sociopolitical and ideological contexts, as well as on the cultural interactions between ancient Greece and the East.
Panagiotis Roilos is Professor in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has published nine books (monographs and edited volumes) on postclassical Greek cultural and intellectual history, comparative poetics, and ritual studies.
Panagiotis Roilos is Professor in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has published nine books (monographs and edited volumes) on postclassical Greek cultural and intellectual history, comparative poetics, and ritual studies.