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Free Download Peter Green, "From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern"
English | ISBN: 0292726031 | 2004 | 348 pages | AZW3 | 766 KB
"I hadn’t, till I really started digging, gauged the fierce intensity of the need for myth in the human psyche, of any age, or sensed the variety of motives dictating that need," writes Peter Green in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays on classical mythology and the mythic experience. Using the need for myth as the starting point for exploring a number of topics in Greek mythology and history, Green advances new ideas about why the human urge to make myths persists across the millennia and why the borderland between mythology and history can sometimes be hard to map.

Free Download From Ikaria to the stars : classical mythification, ancient and modern By Green, Peter
2004 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 0292702302 | PDF | 4 MB
This collection of essays represents Peter Green’s observations on classical myth and is wide-ranging in the questions it asks, including, what did the Greeks think about myth? what factors were responsible for it? what was the role of magic and who designed it? From Hesiod’s Works and Days , to Herodotus and Periclean Athens, to the mythicisation of Alexander’s Alexandria, Green often sets Greek myth and history against one another, opening the door `into non-rational and quasi-rational modes of thought in which it becomes possible to write painful truths and unacceptable history’