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MYTHS AND TRAGEDIES IN THEIR ANCIENT GREEK CONTEXTS This page intentionally left blank Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts RICHARD BUXTON 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #RichardBuxton2013 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2013 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable ISBN 978–0–19–955761–5 PrintedinGreatBritainby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. For Mercedes This page intentionally left blank Preface The various intellectual and personal debts which I incurred while writingtheoriginalversionsoftheseessaysareregisteredchapterby chapter, usually in a concluding footnote. Here it is a pleasure to expressgratitudeonamorecomprehensivescale. The academic context within which I have worked during the whole of the relevant period has been the Department of Classics and Ancient History (formerly the Department of Classics and Archaeology)attheUniversityofBristol.Mycolleagues,andsucces- sive cohorts of postgraduate and undergraduate students at Bristol, havetaughtmemorethanIcanputintowords.Beyondthatprimary location, I am fortunate to have come to know many of the world’s leading experts in the literature and mythology of ancient Greece. Their influence pervades the present book, and a list of their names couldgoonforpages.InsteadIsingleouttwoonly.JanBremmerand PatEasterlinghaveselflesslycommentedonthewholeofthisbookin draft,savingmefrommanyerrors,pointingmetowardsbibliography which I had overlooked, and encouraging me at every turn. I could wishfornomorethanthatthepresentbookshouldmerittherespect ofthesetwooutstandingscholars. Threemoreexpressionsofgratitudeareinorder.Thefirstisjointly tomyOUPeditorHilaryO’Shea,forherforbearanceandconsistently shrewd advice, and to the Press’s eagle-eyed copy-editor Richard Mason,whosaved mefrom many anembarrassment. The secondis to Lisa Agate who, with superlative efficiency, chased up the images which I wanted to reproduce in this book and secured the permis- sions to reproduce them. The third is to Mercedes Aguirre, with whom I have talked over countless aspects of myth, tragedy, and muchelse,tomyconstantprofitanddelight. RGAB Autumn2012 This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofIllustrations x Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 PART I: THEMES IN MYTH 1. ImaginaryGreekMountains 9 2. WolvesandWerewolvesinGreekThought 33 3. MythologicalNames:TheCaseofmelas 53 4. TheMythofTalos:Vulnerability,ichōr,and Boundary-Crossing 73 5. MovementandStillness:VersionsofMedea 99 PART II: MYTHS IN TRAGEDY 6. TragedyandGreekMyth 121 7. Time,Space,andIdeology:TragicMythsandthe AthenianPolis 145 8. BafflementinGreekTragedy 161 9. BlindnessandLimits:SophoklesandtheLogicofMyth 173 10. Euripides’Alkestis:FiveAspectsofanInterpretation 201 11. FeminizedMalesinBakchai:TheImportanceof Discrimination 219 Envoi 241 DetailsofOriginalPublication 243 Bibliography 245 Index 269
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