TY - BOOK ID - 118012704 TI - Myth and History: Close Encounters AU - Allen, Joel AU - Antonopoulos, Andreas P AU - Antypas, Constantine AU - Bershadsky, Natasha AU - Bravo, Jorge J AU - Burgess, Jonathan S AU - Christopoulos, Menelaos AU - Cipolla, Paolo B AU - Di Serio, Chiara AU - Karakantza, Efimia D AU - Karla, Grammatiki AU - Kousoulini, Vasiliki AU - Lecocq, Françoise AU - Levaniouk, Olga AU - Lytle, Ephraim AU - Marinatos, Nannó AU - Meyer, Marion AU - Papachrysostomou, Athina AU - Seferiadi, Gesthimani AU - Trinacty, Chris AU - Velaoras, Alexandros AU - Zanetto, Giuseppe AU - Harrison, George W M AU - Redondo, Jordi PY - 2022 SN - 9783110780116 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - History, Ancient. KW - Mythology, Classical. KW - Classical mythology KW - Ancient history KW - Ancient world history KW - World history KW - History, Ancient KW - Mythology, Classical UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118012704 AB - The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology. • new perspectives and interpretations of the interactions between myth and history in Greek and Roman antiquity • analysis of Greek and Latin texts of cross-generic array • synchronic and diachronic approach of primary material ER -