Wandering Myths : Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface. Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World -- Introduction. Travelling Myths, Travelling Heroes -- Part I: Changing Cultural and Mythical Landscapes in Anatolia -- Kingship in Heaven in Anatolia, Syria and Greece. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence -- Making Meaning of Myth. On the Interpretation of Mythological Imagery in the Polyxena Sarcophagus and the Kızılbel Tomb and the History of Achaemenid Asia Minor -- Myth, Memory and the Past. Wandering Heroes between Arcadia and Cyprus -- Part II: Reception and Innovation of Mythological Programmes between Greece and Italy -- From Mezntie to Mezentius? The Stratigraphy of a Myth in Etruria and Rome -- Pots, Plots, and Performance. Comic and Tragic Iconography in Apulian Vase Painting -- Distributed Narrative. A Very Short History of Juxtaposing Myths on Pompeian Walls -- No One is Immortal. From Exemplum Mortalitatis to Exemplum Virtutis -- Attic Sarcophagi. Myth Selection and the Heroising Tradition -- Part III: Wandering East, Wandering South -- Gilgāmeš and Homer: The Missing Link? -- Myth, Memory, and Mimesis. The Inaros Cycle as Literature of Resistance -- Death on the Nile: The Myth of Osiris and the Utility of History in Diodorus. Egypt In Greco-Roman Historiography -- Wandering Hero, Wandering Myths? The Image of Heracles in Iran -- The Transformations of Achilles on Late Roman Mosaics in the East -- Epilogue -- Index.

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