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Investigates the construction of democratic ideology in Classical Athens through a study of the social memory of Athens' mythical pastProposes a novel approach
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This book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them. In particular, it examines how myths encode thoughts on rit
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This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to ritual