The archaeology of nostalgia : how the Greeks re-created their mythical past
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The archaeology of nostalgia : how the Greeks re-created their mythical past
Thames & Hudson, c2002
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The Greeks used the mythical geography of their land to re-create a physical view of the past that their poets, priests and politicians used as a paradigm for contemporary behaviour, and they drew upon the world around them, not just to illustrate that past, but also in many ways to create it.
Sir John Boardman explores objects and images: those that are recoverable, those that are mentioned in texts, or those that may be imagined. He also assembles the many relevant extracts from classical writers with paraphrases of their content.
Presented alphabetically under authors and with indexes to gods, heroes, places and classes of object, these Testimonia are absorbing in their own right as well as vital source material for students.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. The Function of the Past in Greece: Our Sources 2. Fossilized History: Them Bones 3. Homes Fit for Heroes 4. Realia et Naturalia 5. Imaging the Past: Here be Monsters 6. Imaging the Past: Heroes and the Heroic 7. Conclusion Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgements * General Index * Testimonia * Indexes to Testimonia: Names and Places, Subjects
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