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Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange

Essays in Greek Literature and Culture

John Gould author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:15th Feb '01

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At the heart of this book lies a concern with the interaction between the cultural assumptions and world-view of ancient (and often of modern) Greeks and their literature. John Gould examines the myths, rituals, memory, and exchange of ancient Greeks with an overriding interest in anthropological field-work which helps to shape his argument. The book contains the most significant essays (some now regarded as classics) written by one of the world's foremost experts in Greek mythology and culture over the last thirty years, including several previously unpublished papers. Newly revised, with reference both to corroborative material and to subsequent treatments and discussion of significantly different approaches to the same topics, these papers offer a marked coherence of focus and argument which informs the whole volume. Most of the essays arise out of the experience of teaching and address problems, puzzles, and misunderstandings encountered by students.

invaluable collection from a life's work at the cutting edge of literary interpretation. * Alan Griffiths *
Lively reading ... There is a vast amount here to digest and reflect upon. * Alan Griffiths, Times Literary Supplement *
Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange is itself a fitting memorial to Gould's humane scholarship. * Tim Rood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
What this excellent volume does attest -- and what gives it a good deal of its overall coherence -- is what Gould himself acknowledges as his 'pervasive interest in anthropological fieldwork'. * Tim Rood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Overall, though, it is a great benefit to have these pieces gathered together in one volume. * Tim Rood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

ISBN: 9780198152996

Dimensions: 224mm x 147mm x 28mm

Weight: 744g

434 pages