Foundation myths in ancient societies
Subtitle: dialogues and discourses
By: edited by Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780812246421; 9780812290219
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Civilization; Group identity; Myth; Ancient Civilization; Classical Mythology; Ancient Cities and towns
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Naoíse Mac Sweeney; title: Foreign Founders: Greeks and Hebrews / Irad Malkin; title: Oikist and Archegetes in Context: Representing the Foundation of Sicilian Naxos / Lieve Donnellan; title: Who's the Daddy? Contesting and Constructing Theseus' Paternity in Fifth-Century Athens / Susanne Turner; title: The Founder's Shrine and the Foundation of Ai Khanoum / Rachel Mairs; title: Alexander, Agathos Daimon, and Ptolemy: The Alexandrian Foundation Myth in Dialogue / Daniel Ogden; title: Figuring Rome's Foundation on the Iliac Tablets / Michael Squire; title: Beyond Greece and Rome: Foundation Myths on Tyrian Coinage in the Third Century AD / Alfred Hirt; title: Epilogue / Robin Osborne.