The writing of Orpheus
Subtitle: Greek myth in cultural context
By: Marcel Detienne ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Mythology, Greek
Work titles: Ecriture d'Orphee.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: The genealogy of a body of thought; title: What the Greeks called "myth"; title: Mythology, writing, and forms of historicity; title: The practices of myth-analysis; title: The Danaids among themselves. Marriage founded upon violence; title: A kitchen garden for women, or how to engender on one's own; title: Misogynous Hestia, or the city in its autonomy; title: "Even talk is in some ways divine"; title: An ephebe and an olive tree; title: The crane and the labyrinth; title: The finger of Orestes; title: At Lycaon's table; title: An inventive writing, the voice of Orpheus, and the games of Palamedes; title: The double writing of mythology (between the Timaeus and the Critias); title: Orpheus rewrites the city gods.