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  1. The politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and the Odyssey in conjunction with evidence from... more

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    This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and the Odyssey in conjunction with evidence from material culture, it demonstrates how sacrifice narratives in early Greek hexameter poetry are intimately connected to a mythic-poetic discourse referred to as the 'politics of the belly'. This mythic-poetic discourse presents sacrifice as a site of symbolic conflict between the male stomach and female womb for both mortals and immortals. Ultimately, the book argues that the ritual of sacrifice operates as a cultural mechanism for the perpetuation of patriarchal ideology not just in early Greek hexameter, but throughout Greek cultural history. Introduction: the paradox of sacrifice and the politics of feasting -- Hesiod and the interpretation of Greek sacrifice -- Reevaluating the value of sacrifice: commensal politics -- The use of sacrifice: gendered politics -- Interpreting the politics of Greek sacrifice through poetics -- Anger and honorary shares: the Promethean division revisited -- The anger of Zeus in the Theogony -- Metaphors of anger and the mythic origin of sacrifice -- Why Zeus is angry: the socio-poetics of anger and distribution -- Conclusion: contested portions in poetry and practice -- Sacrifice, succession, and the politics of patriarchy -- Contest and deception, sacrifice and birth in Hesiod's Theogony -- Controlling consumption: sacrifice and Pandora -- Ending sacrifice, challenging patriarchy in the Homeric hymn to Demeter -- Conclusion: sacrifice and patriarchy in poetry and practice -- The desire of a god: semiotic sacrifice and patriarchal identity in the Homeric hymn to Hermes -- Desire, deception, and Hermes' conflicted genealogy -- Conspicuous consumption and sanctuary economics -- Hermes' semiotic sacrifice -- Sacrifice and song: the poetics of distribution -- Conclusion: Hermes' sacrificial self-fashioning -- Cities where men sacrifice: Odysseus returns to the fatherland -- Not misrecognizing Hermes -- Returning to the fatherland, returning to sacrifice -- Consumption without return: Odysseus' companions and the suitors -- Recognizing fathers and sons -- Conclusion: sacrifice, genealogy, and patriarchy in the Odyssey -- Conclusion: sacrificial narrative and the politics of the belly

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781316687048
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    RVK Categories: BE 2580 ; BE 7306 ; NH 5550 ; NH 6880 ; FE 3789
    Subjects: Greek literature; Sacrifice in literature; Sacrifice; Hesiod ; Theogony; Homer ; Odyssey; Homeric hymns; Greek literature ; History and criticism; Sacrifice in literature; Sacrifice ; Greece; Homeric hymns; Odyssey (Homer); Theogony (Hesiod); Greek literature; Sacrifice; Sacrifice in literature; Hesiod; Homer; Greece; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Homer: Odyssey; Hesiod: Theogony
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 198 Seiten), Illustrationen
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  2. Hesiod's Theogony
    from Near Eastern creation myths to Paradise lost
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    This study both offers a reading of Hesiod's 'Theogony' and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. It also considers the poem in light of Near Eastern... more

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    This study both offers a reading of Hesiod's 'Theogony' and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. It also considers the poem in light of Near Eastern creation stories, including the 'Enûma Elish' and 'Genesis', as well as Freud's 'Civilization and Its Discontents'. In this book, Hesiod's poem is read as a hymn to Zeus and a city-state creation myth, arguing that Olympus is portrayed as an idealised polity and - with but one exception - a place of communal harmony

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780190253981
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    Subjects: Hesiod ; Theogony; Hesiod ; Appreciation
    Other subjects: Hesiod; Hesiod: Theogony
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, illustrations (black and white)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Hesiod's cosmos
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Hesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos.... more

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    Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (BIS)
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    Hesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos. After first offering a survey of the structure of both poems, Professor Clay reveals their mutually illuminating unity by offering detailed analyses of their respective poems, their teachings on the origins of the human race and the two versions of the Prometheus myth. She then examines the role of human beings in the Theogony and the role of the gods in the Works and Days, as well as the position of the hybrid figures of monsters and heroes within the Hesiodic cosmos and in relation to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women Introducton -- Orientations : the Theogony -- Orientations : the Works and days -- Overtures -- The origins and nature of mankind -- The two Prometheuses -- Perspectives on gods and men -- Hybrids -- Conclusion : Hesiod and Calchas at Aulis

     

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  4. The politics of sacrifice in early Greek myth and poetry
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and the Odyssey in conjunction with evidence from... more

    Fachinformationsverbund Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde
    E-Book CUP HSFK
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
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    Technische Universität Chemnitz, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Bibliothek
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
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    Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Medien- und Informationszentrum, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek
    eBook Cambridge
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    Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (BIS)
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    Universitätsbibliothek Rostock
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and the Odyssey in conjunction with evidence from material culture, it demonstrates how sacrifice narratives in early Greek hexameter poetry are intimately connected to a mythic-poetic discourse referred to as the 'politics of the belly'. This mythic-poetic discourse presents sacrifice as a site of symbolic conflict between the male stomach and female womb for both mortals and immortals. Ultimately, the book argues that the ritual of sacrifice operates as a cultural mechanism for the perpetuation of patriarchal ideology not just in early Greek hexameter, but throughout Greek cultural history. Introduction: the paradox of sacrifice and the politics of feasting -- Hesiod and the interpretation of Greek sacrifice -- Reevaluating the value of sacrifice: commensal politics -- The use of sacrifice: gendered politics -- Interpreting the politics of Greek sacrifice through poetics -- Anger and honorary shares: the Promethean division revisited -- The anger of Zeus in the Theogony -- Metaphors of anger and the mythic origin of sacrifice -- Why Zeus is angry: the socio-poetics of anger and distribution -- Conclusion: contested portions in poetry and practice -- Sacrifice, succession, and the politics of patriarchy -- Contest and deception, sacrifice and birth in Hesiod's Theogony -- Controlling consumption: sacrifice and Pandora -- Ending sacrifice, challenging patriarchy in the Homeric hymn to Demeter -- Conclusion: sacrifice and patriarchy in poetry and practice -- The desire of a god: semiotic sacrifice and patriarchal identity in the Homeric hymn to Hermes -- Desire, deception, and Hermes' conflicted genealogy -- Conspicuous consumption and sanctuary economics -- Hermes' semiotic sacrifice -- Sacrifice and song: the poetics of distribution -- Conclusion: Hermes' sacrificial self-fashioning -- Cities where men sacrifice: Odysseus returns to the fatherland -- Not misrecognizing Hermes -- Returning to the fatherland, returning to sacrifice -- Consumption without return: Odysseus' companions and the suitors -- Recognizing fathers and sons -- Conclusion: sacrifice, genealogy, and patriarchy in the Odyssey -- Conclusion: sacrificial narrative and the politics of the belly

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781316687048
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: BE 2580 ; BE 7306 ; NH 5550 ; NH 6880 ; FE 3789
    Subjects: Greek literature; Sacrifice in literature; Sacrifice; Hesiod ; Theogony; Homer ; Odyssey; Homeric hymns; Greek literature ; History and criticism; Sacrifice in literature; Sacrifice ; Greece; Homeric hymns; Odyssey (Homer); Theogony (Hesiod); Greek literature; Sacrifice; Sacrifice in literature; Hesiod; Homer; Greece; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Homer: Odyssey; Hesiod: Theogony
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 198 Seiten), Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2017)

  5. Hesiod's Theogony
    from Near Eastern creation myths to Paradise lost
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    This study both offers a reading of Hesiod's 'Theogony' and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. It also considers the poem in light of Near Eastern... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
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    This study both offers a reading of Hesiod's 'Theogony' and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. It also considers the poem in light of Near Eastern creation stories, including the 'Enûma Elish' and 'Genesis', as well as Freud's 'Civilization and Its Discontents'. In this book, Hesiod's poem is read as a hymn to Zeus and a city-state creation myth, arguing that Olympus is portrayed as an idealised polity and - with but one exception - a place of communal harmony

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780190253981
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Hesiod ; Theogony; Hesiod ; Appreciation
    Other subjects: Hesiod; Hesiod: Theogony
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, illustrations (black and white)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index