Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual

Burkhard Fehr is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Hamburg. His numerous books and studies focus on ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture and their wider sociopolitical and ideological contexts, as well as on the cultural interactions between ancient Greece and the East. Panagiotis Roilos is Professor in the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has published nine books (monographs and edited volumes) on postclassical Greek cultural and intellectual history, comparative poetics, and ritual studies.

"By weaving together contributions from anthropology, classics, aesthetics, intellectual history, and critical theory, this Festschrift does not intimidate; it invites to think anew. [...] Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual is not only a tribute to a singular scholar. It is also a methodological laboratory, a set of experiments that demonstrate how to think across traditions, genres, and epochs. Readers will not come away with the sense that they must master everything at once; rather, they will find models for how to let seemingly distant practices speak to one another. In that sense, the book is not just for the rare polymath of the kind of Demetrios Yatromanolakis, but for everyone who is willing to imagine new paths of inquiry." Alberto Parisi, in Eirene, Studia Graeca et Latina, LXI, 2025, I-II, pp. 286-287.