Search for dissertations about: "Greek Mythology"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Greek Mythology.

  2. 1. Aeschylus' Supplices : introduction and commentary on vv. 1-523

    Author : Pär Sandin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aeschylus; Hiketides; Supplices; Suppliants; Suppliant women; tragedy; Greek drama; Greek theatre; textual criticism;

    Abstract : Aeschylus' (525-456 B.C.) drama the Suppliant women (Greek Hikétides, Lat. Supplices) is all certain to be the first in a trilogy of tragedies with appurtenant comic epilogue, 'satyr-play'. READ MORE

  4. 2. The extended voice : Instances of myth in the Indo-European corpus

    Author : Peter Jackson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Indo-European poetics; Vedic religion; Greek religion; pre-Christian Scandinavian religion; myth; oral tradition; oral literature; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Abstract : Proceeding from the presence of recurrent, poetic phrases and verbal collocations in early texts composed in Indo-European languages, this study is an attempt to elucidate some fundamental problems of myth, tradition and culture. The scholarly study of Indo-European religions and mythology-initiated during the 19th century and proceeding up to modem times with varying success-has often been devoted to the task of restoring a homogeneous system of Indo-European religious beliefs by searching for deep-seated reflexes of such a system in the historically attainable cultures. READ MORE