Myth and History: Close Encounters

Contents
Preface
Part I: Epos
Historicizing Homer’s Myth in the Homeric Epigrams
The Aristotelian Constitution of the Ithacans and Homero-Cyclic Reception of the Odyssey
“Let Me Tell You an Ancient Deed of the Distant Past”: The Epic Hero as a ‘Historian’
Authority, Power and Governability in the Odyssey: The Mythical Birth of the Polis
Part II: Lyric Poetry
Domestic and Political Order in the ‘Foundation Myths’ of Partheneia
Myth, Memory and a Massacre on the Road to Dodona: Reinterpreting an Elegiac Lament from Archaic Ambracia (SEG 41.540A)
Part III: Historiography
Shaping History: The Case of the Tyrannicides and the Marathonomachoi
The Myth of Troy Turned into History: Thucydides’ Archaeology
The Argive Women, Beards and Democracy
Seeking Agariste
The Herodotean Myth on the Origin of the Scythians
Part IV: Drama
(Re)writing a Sicilian Myth: The Palici and Aeschylus’ Aitnaiai
“To Be Buried or Not to Be Buried?” Necropolitics in Athenian History and Sophocles’ Antigone
Sophocles’ Trachiniae and the Peloponnesian War: A New Perspective
The Authority of ‘History’ in the Exodus of Sophocles’ Trachiniae
Nectanebo II and Philip II in Mythic Disguise: Comedy’s Burlesque of History
Part V: Loci and Tempora
The Myth of Opheltes at Nemea in the Context of Rivalry in the Archaic Peloponnese
Marginal Remarks on the Concept of ‘Time of Origins’ in Classical Greek Culture
Myth and History in the Court of Archelaus
Part VI: Roman Era and Late Antiquity
“Oceans Rise, Empires Fall”: Cyclical Time and History in Seneca’s Quaestiones Naturales 3
Herodotus’ Phoenix between Hesiod and Papyrus Harris 500, and Its Legacy in Tacitus
Empire, Ethnicity, Exegesis: Lucian on Interpretations of Greek Myth in the Roman Mediterranean
Myth and History in Libanius’ Imperial Speeches
Myth and Levels of Language in the Octavia
Appendix
The Editors
The Contributors
Index Rerum et Nominum Notabiliorum