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Eine Insel im Meer der Geschichten: Untersuchungen zu Mythen aus Lemnos (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage (PAwB))

Author Virgilio Masciadri
Publisher Franz Steiner Verlag
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ISBN / ASIN3515088180
ISBN-139783515088183
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This volume focuses on three Greek myths connected to the island of Lemnos in the northern Aegean. The relate how the hero Philoktetos is wounded by a snake, how the island's women kill their husbands, and how Hephaistos, god of the forge, fell from heaven to earth. The inner workings of these three myths is analyzed, as well as their relationship to other myths and specific geographical and historical circumstances. Based on a newly conceived structuralistic interpretation, this volume offers interesting insights into the analysis of myths in general. German text.