The Greek dialogues : explorations in myth
Material type: TextDescription: 673p.; indexContent type:- text
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- volume
- 978-1-4535-4588-1
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Edited, and foreword by, Deborah Wesley.. Inscription on half title from the author to the library.
Editor's preface. An essay on dialogue. 1 The Ariadne-Theseus-Dionysos cycle. 2 Dionysos. 3 Athena. 4 Hephaestus. 5 Apollo. 6 Demeter and Kore. 7 The god Pan. 8 Hermes. 9 Hera. 10 The invisible loves. 11 Aphrodite. 12 Myths of Zeus. 13 Journey of the Argonauts. 14 Perseus. 15 Heracles
'...we find clusters of imaginative dialogues, each cluster centering around a particular mythic being--a god, a hero, a goddess--and illuminating its nature in an intimate and telling way (e.g., When Aphrodite visits Hephaestus's working quarters, a forge, she is appalled to find that there is no ease or comfort there, not even a single couch!) This method of exploration, the author calls poiesis. The reader or listener participates imaginatively in the dialogue, and this leads to a kind of inner distillation of the material into an individual experience of meaning.' --Editor's Preface, p. 17
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