Description
This is an important book, especially in its magisterial demonstration of how discourse analysis can be applied to the intertextual and anthropological study of Greek myth, in this case the foundation of Cyrene. It should be required reading by anyone doing work at the graduate and professional levels in the fields of mythology, cultural poetics, and Greek colonization. -- Erwin Cook, University of Texas, Austin, author of "The Odyssey in Athens"
About the Author
Claude Calame is Directeur d'etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Lausanne. Several of his books have appeared in English translation, including "The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece" (Princeton), "Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece", and "The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece". Daniel W. Berman is Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Reviews
"Calame's faultless analysis convinces us that what for us is myth was for the Greeks nothing but the telling of 'les evenements constitutifs du passe de sa propre culture; mieux, de sa propre cite'... [T]he lucidity of his arguments and the answers he provides to many of the problems posed by Greek literary tradition cannot be denied."--Adolfo J. Dominguez, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780691114583
Author Claude Calame
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 425g