Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange

Essays in Greek Literature and Culture

• Author(s): John Gould,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 423
• ISBN_10: 019926581X
  ISBN_13: 9780199265817
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Ancient / Greece , History / Europe / Greece , Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical , Religion / General , Religion / Ancient , Social Science / Folklore & Mythology ,

Description:... The book contains the most significant essays--newly revised for this volume--written by one of the world's foremost experts in Greek mythology and culture over the last thirty years. These essays examine the myths, rituals, memory, and exchange of ancient Greeks with an overriding interest in anthropological field-work which helps to shape his argument.