Myth and History Close Encounters Gebunden

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 scientif ic 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.