Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual ― written in honor of Professor Demetrios Yatromanolakis, a pioneering and influential scholar ― shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures in antiquity; the interplay between art (vase-painting and sculpture) and broader ideological developments/ mentalities in antiquity; ritual in ancient Greek contexts; political ideologies and religion; history of scholarship, textual criticism/critical editing, and hermeneutics; the reception of myth and of archaic and classical Greek culture and philosophy in diverse discursive, mediatic, and sociocultural contexts ― from early twentieth-century painting, to modernism and the avant-garde, to Foucauldian thought.

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.