Myth, Ritual, Memory, and Exchange

The late John Gould was Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol

Review from previous edition invaluable collection of papers from a life's work at the cutting edge of literary interpretation ... There is a vast amount here to digest and reflect upon.

• 1. Ancient Poetry and Modern Readers ; 2. Hiketeia ; 3. Dramatic Character and 'Human Intelligibility' in Greek Tragedy ; 4. Law, Custom, and Myth: Aspects of the Social Position of Women in Classical Athens ; 5. Homeric Epic and the Tragic Moment ; 6. Tragedy in Performance ; 7. On Making Sense of Greek Religion ; 8. Mothers' Day: A Note on Euripides' Bacchae ; 9. The Language of Oedipus ; 10. Oedipus and Antigone at Thebes ; 11. Dionysus and the Hippy Convoy: Ritual, Myth, and Metaphor in the Cult of Dionysus ; 12. Give and Take in Herodotus ; 13. Plato and Performance ; 14. '... And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Kings': Greek Tragic Drama as Narrative ; 15. The Idea of Society in the Iliad ; 16. Herodotus and Religion ; 17. Tragedy and Collective Experience ; 18. Myth, Memory, and the Chorus: 'Tragic Rationality' ; Epimetrum: On the Nature of Collective Memory