Interpreting the images of Greek myths
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Klaus Junker ; translated by Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass and Anthony Snodgrass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780521895828
Subjects: Image (Philosophy); Mythology, Greek, in art; ART / History / Ancient & Classical
Work titles: Griechische Mythenbilder
Description: "Great events of myth such as the Trojan War and outstanding figures like Herakles, Oedipus, Medea or the great Olympian Gods have a firm place in the cultural consciousness of the present day. At the same time, the Greek myths play a prominent role in the study of the Classical world. That such a wide range of disciplines - Classical Philology, Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, and Philosophy - draw on these myths for their research has much do with the fact that, in antiquity, myths and their content were present in so many facets of human existence"--
Notes: Originally published: Griechische Mythenbilder : eine Einfuhrung in ihre Interpretation. Stuttgart : J.B. Metzlersche     Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag, c2005.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Achilles and Patroklos in the Trojan War: an introductory case study; 2. Definitions: myth and mythological image; 3. The production of myths and of mythological images - stages in the historical development; 4. Types of monument and fields of function; 5. Methods.