Athenian Myths and Festivals Aglauros, Erechtheus, Plynteria, Panathenaia, Dionysia

, by Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane; Parker, Robert

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ISBN: 9780199592074 | 0199592071
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Copyright: 4/8/2011

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Moving out from a particular problem about a particular Athenian festival, the late Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood investigates central questions concerning Athenian festivals and the myths that underlay them. She studies the role played at festivals by here

List of Illustrations	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Festivals and Gene: Reconstructions, Problematik, Methodologies	p. 1
Cultic Myths and Others: Aglauros, Erichthonios, Erechtheus, Praxithea	p. 24
Reading cultic myths	p. 24
Aglauros	p. 26
Life, cults, paradigmatic roles, early images	p. 26
Aglauros and her sisters in the myth of Erichthonios	p. 36
Aglauros as a whole	p. 49
Erechtheus, Erichthonios, and others	p. 51
Erechtheus, 'complex' Erechtheus, and Erichthonios	p. 51
Erechtheus and Poseidon, Poseidon Erechtheus	p. 66
'Complex' Erechtheus, 'post-split' Erechtheus, and Erichthonios	p. 88
Praxithea, the wife of Erechtheus	p. 89
Aglauros and others before Kekrops and after	p. 94
Reconstructing cultic myths: a summary of the conclusions	p. 108
Appendix: Eumolpos, the Hyades, and others in Euripides, Erechtheus	p. 111
Eumolpos and the Mysteries	p. 111
Hyades and the daughters of Erechtheus	p. 123
Reading a Festival Nexus: Plynteria and Kallynteria	p. 135
25 Thargelion: day one of the Plynteria	p. 135
The analyses	p. 135
25 Thargelion: a summary	p. 151
Aglauros, Aitia, Plynteria, and Kallynteria	p. 151
The procession to Phaleron	p. 158
The Problematik: the procession of the Plynteria and the Palladion hypothesis	p. 158
The argument for the Plynteria	p. 160
26 Thargelion: procession to Phaleron and loutron	p. 175
Other rites, other festivals: comparisons and reconstructions	p. 180
Kallynteria: 27 and 28 Thargelion. Return to the Acropolis and the temple's reopening	p. 193
Washing the new wool	p. 205
Plynteria and Kallynteria: reconstructions and readings	p. 214
Reconstructions: a summary	p. 214
Readings and meanings	p. 216
Appendix: Nagy on chiton and peplos	p. 220
Athena at the Palladion and the Palladion myth	p. 225
The Palladion in Athens: introduction and Problematik	p. 225
Troy, the Palladion, and the Greeks	p. 227
The Palladion in Athens	p. 246
Athena Polias, Panathenaia, and the Peplos	p. 263
The cult, the festival, and the peplos	p. 263
The aitiological myths	p. 270
Panathenaia and Plynteria	p. 281
The peplos on the Parthenon frieze: a reading	p. 284
Appendix: The peplos at the Panathenaia: a critique of other readings	p. 307
City Dionysia, Bakchiadai, Euneidai, and Other Gene	p. 312
Introduction, Problematik, methodology	p. 312
Reading the dedication	p. 315
The Bakchiadai and the cult of Dionysos Eleuthereus: a critique	p. 327
The cult of Dionysos Eleuthereus	p. 335
Conclusions: a summary	p. 339
Gene and Athenian Festivals	p. 340
References	p. 354
Index	p. 367
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