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Gregory Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics

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  • Gregory Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics, Table of Contents, http://chs.harvard.edu/publications.sec/online_print_books.ssp/. Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC. 7/26/07

Contents [number]

Foreword [vii]

Acknowledgements [x]

Introduction [1]

Part I.The Hellenization of Indo-European Poetics

1Homer and Comparative Mythology [7]

2Formula and Meter: The Oral Poetics of Homer [18]

3Hesiod and the Poetics of Pan-Hellenism [36]

Part II.The Hellenization of Indo-European Myth and Ritual

4Patroklos, Concepts of Afterlife, and the Indic Triple Fire [85]

5The Death of Sarpedon and the Question of Homeric Uniqueness [122]

6The King and the Hearth: Six Studies of Sacral Vocabulary Relating to the Fireplace [143]

7Thunder and the Birth of Humankind [181]

8Sêma and Nóēsis: The Hero’s Tomb and the “Reading” of Symbols in Homer and Hesiod [202]

9Phaethon, Sappho’s Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas: “Reading” the Symbols of Greek Lyric [223]

10On the Death of Actaeon [263]

Part III.The Hellenization of Indo-European Social Ideology

11Poetry and the Ideology of the Polis: The Symbolism of Apportioning Meat [269]

12Mythical Foundations of Greek Society and the Concept of the City-State [276]

13Unattainable Wishes: The Restricted Range of an Idiom in Epic Diction [294]

Bibliography [303]

General Index [329]

Index of Scholars [360]

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