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Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual
Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 354
The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual â written in honor of Professor Demetrios Yatromanolakis, a pioneering and influential scholar â shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures in antiquity; the interplay between art (vase-painting and sculpture) and broader ideological developments/ mentalities in antiquity; ritual in ancient Greek contexts; political ideologies and religion; history of scholarship, textual criticism/critical editing, and hermeneutics; the reception of myth and of archaic and classical Greek culture and philosophy in diverse discursive, mediatic, and sociocultural contexts â from early twentieth-century painting, to modernism and the avant-garde, to Foucauldian thought.
Burkhard Fehr is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Hamburg. His numerous books and studies focus on ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture and their wider sociopolitical and ideological contexts, as well as on the cultural interactions between ancient Greece and the East.
Panagiotis Roilos is Professor in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has published nine books (monographs and edited volumes) on postclassical Greek cultural and intellectual history, comparative poetics, and ritual studies.
Panagiotis Roilos is Professor in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has published nine books (monographs and edited volumes) on postclassical Greek cultural and intellectual history, comparative poetics, and ritual studies.
"By weaving together contributions from anthropology, classics, aesthetics, intellectual history, and critical theory, this Festschrift does not intimidate; it invites to think anew. [...] Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual is not only a tribute to a singular scholar. It is also a methodological laboratory, a set of experiments that demonstrate how to think across traditions, genres, and epochs. Readers will not come away with the sense that they must master everything at once; rather, they will find models for how to let seemingly distant practices speak to one another. In that sense, the book is not just for the rare polymath of the kind of Demetrios Yatromanolakis, but for everyone who is willing to imagine new paths of inquiry."
Alberto Parisi, in Eirene, Studia Graeca et Latina, LXI, 2025, I-II, pp. 286-287.
Alberto Parisi, in Eirene, Studia Graeca et Latina, LXI, 2025, I-II, pp. 286-287.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âBurkhard Fehr and Panagiotis Roilos
1 Trojans and Phrygians between East and West
âC. Brian Rose
2 Attic Late Geometric Iconography and Homerâs Shield Description Answers to a Crisis
âBurkhard Fehr
3 Whatâs in a Name: from Ashurbanipal to Sardanapalus
âAda Cohen
4 Excavating Foucault
âFurther toward an Anthropology of Reception
âJames D. Faubion
5 Bee Stung: Platoâs Love of the Poets
âElaine Scarry
6 Epithalamia in Alcman
âFelix Meister
7 Pittacus the Scapegoat and the Disease of Mytilene
âIppokratis Kantzios
8 Antigone the Ephebe
âAdriana Brook
9 The Cult of Augustus in Athens
âContradictory Factors and Features
âMichael Paschalis
10 Reconstructing the Alexandrian Editions of Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anacreon
âAlexander Dale
11 A âParochialâ Poet in the Making
âTwentieth-century Receptions of Corinna, the Poet Formerly Known as âDivineâ
âThea S. Thorsen
12 Xenophon on the Psyche
âDavid Konstan
13 Artemis or Atalanta?
âAn Emendation in Meleager AP 7.421
âKathryn Gutzwiller
14 Curtains for Agamemnon
âNew Light on His Death Bed
âMalcolm Davies
15 Reperforming the Myth of Phaedra in Greece, 1918â2021
âErasmia-Louiza Stavropoulou
16 Translator, Poet, âBotcherâ?
âRaoul Schrottâs German Iliad and Its Popular and Scholarly Reception
âSilvio Bär
17 The Aristotelean Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism
âAskesis and Capitalism Today
âWilliam Tilleczek
18 Surrealism in France and Mythogenesis
âWolfgang Asholt
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âBurkhard Fehr and Panagiotis Roilos
Part 1: Antiquity
Section 1: Archaeology and History of Art
1 Trojans and Phrygians between East and West
âC. Brian Rose
2 Attic Late Geometric Iconography and Homerâs Shield Description Answers to a Crisis
âBurkhard Fehr
3 Whatâs in a Name: from Ashurbanipal to Sardanapalus
âAda Cohen
Section 2: Anthropology, Aesthetics, and Antiquity
4 Excavating Foucault
âFurther toward an Anthropology of Reception
âJames D. Faubion
5 Bee Stung: Platoâs Love of the Poets
âElaine Scarry
Section 3: Ritual, Performance, Poetics, History
6 Epithalamia in Alcman
âFelix Meister
7 Pittacus the Scapegoat and the Disease of Mytilene
âIppokratis Kantzios
8 Antigone the Ephebe
âAdriana Brook
9 The Cult of Augustus in Athens
âContradictory Factors and Features
âMichael Paschalis
Section 4: Excavating Texts
10 Reconstructing the Alexandrian Editions of Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anacreon
âAlexander Dale
11 A âParochialâ Poet in the Making
âTwentieth-century Receptions of Corinna, the Poet Formerly Known as âDivineâ
âThea S. Thorsen
12 Xenophon on the Psyche
âDavid Konstan
13 Artemis or Atalanta?
âAn Emendation in Meleager AP 7.421
âKathryn Gutzwiller
Part 2: Reception Studies
Section 5: Performing the Past
14 Curtains for Agamemnon
âNew Light on His Death Bed
âMalcolm Davies
15 Reperforming the Myth of Phaedra in Greece, 1918â2021
âErasmia-Louiza Stavropoulou
16 Translator, Poet, âBotcherâ?
âRaoul Schrottâs German Iliad and Its Popular and Scholarly Reception
âSilvio Bär
17 The Aristotelean Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism
âAskesis and Capitalism Today
âWilliam Tilleczek
Section 6: Mythogenesis
18 Surrealism in France and Mythogenesis
âWolfgang Asholt
Index
Scholars and students in the fields of intellectual history, classical studies, social studies, classical art history and archaeology, and comparative literature. Keywords: Ancient Greece, intellectual history, Europe; mythology; ritual; Greek art and archaeology; art history; cultural anthropology; European history, twentieth century; Michel Foucault; Reception Studies; Avant-garde, aesthetics, ancient philosophy; Rome, capitalism; Plato.