Myth and allusion
Subtitle: meanings and uses of myth in ancient Greek and Roman society.
Contributors: Hawley, Anne.; Goldfarb, Hilliard T.; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.; Isabella Stewart Gardner Interdisciplinary Symposium (3rd : 1994 : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
Series: Fenway Court -- 1994
Publisher: Trustees of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Mythology, Greek -- Congresses.; Mythology, Roman -- Congresses.; Sarcophagi, Roman -- Congresses.; Art and mythology -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Title from caption.

"The 1994 Fenway Court presents the papers given at the third annual Isabella Stewart Gardner Interdisciplinary Symposium titled: Myth and allusion, meanings and uses of myth in ancient Greek and Roman society" -- P. 7.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Forward / A. Hawley; value: Preface / H.T. Goldfarb; value: The uses of classical myth / Jerome J. Pollitt; value: Myth, art and life in archaic and classical Greece / Sir John Boardman; value: The ghosts of Homer / Tamara Green; value: Getting to be a star : the politics of catasterism / Peter Green; value: Mythic models of the Roman social order in the Cancelleria Reliefs / Eve D'Ambra; value: The meaning of myth on Roman sarcophagi / Dagmar Grassinger; value: Myths to live by : drinking in the Roman house / Christine Kondoleon.