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Light and darkness in ancient Greek myth and religion
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- Creator
- edited by Menelaos Christopoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Publication
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- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2010]
- ©2010
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xx, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780739138984, 0739139010, 0739138987, 9786612921803, 9780739139011, 1282921800
- OCLC
- ocn610018907, ocn699511233
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface -- Introduction -- The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names / Richard Buxton -- Dark skin and dark deeds: Danaides and Aigyptioi in a culture of light / Efimia D. Karakantza -- Brightness and darkness in Pindar's Pythian 3: Aigla-Koronis-Arsinoë and her coming of age / Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos -- S-light anomaly: dark brightness in Euripides' Medea / Spyros Syropoulos -- The light imagery of divine manifestation in Homer / Soteroula Constantinidou -- Trojan night / Ken Dowden -- Tithonus and Phaon: mythical allegories of light and darkness in Sappho's poetry / Avgi-Anna Maggel -- Erinyes as creatures of darkness / Mercedes Aguirre -- Journey into light and honors in darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus / Sebastian Anderson -- Hephaestus in Homer's epics: god of fire, god of life / Isabelle Ratinaud-Lachkar -- To see or not to see: blind people and blindness in ancient Greek myths / Françoise Létoublon -- Blindness as punishment / Ariadni Tatti-Gartziou -- Light and darkness and archaic Greek cosmography / Nanno Marinatos -- Mystic light and near-death experience / Richard Seaford -- Dark-winged Nyx and bright-winged Eros in Aristophanes' Orphic cosmogony: The birds / Menelaos Christopoulos -- The bright cypress of the orphic golden tablets: direction and illumination in myths of the underworld / Radcliffe G. Edmonds -- Light and darkness in Dionysiac rituals as illustrated on attic vase paintings of the 5th century BCE / Dimitris Paleothodoros -- Light and lighting equipment in the Eleusinian mysteries: symbolism and ritual use / Ioanna Patera -- Magic lamps, luminous dreams: lamps in PGM recipes / Athanassia Zografou