Sökning: "Greek Myth"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Greek Myth.
1. Att skriva det grekiska : En otidsenlig position i svenskspråkig modernism
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze how ancient Greek philosophy and literature – as it was mediated through Nietzsche – gained a vital function in the rise of early Swedish modernism and its later expressions. The turn to antiquity, within a modernism confined to the Swedish language, was not only intended as a breach in tradition, but above all to think anew, to transgress the conventions of (one’s) time. LÄS MER
2. The extended voice : Instances of myth in the Indo-European corpus
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
3. En himmel av sten : Willy Kyrklund och det grekiska
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the notion of the ‘Greek’ in the work of Willy Kyrklund [1921–2009].Kyrklund authorship can be interpreted as a dialogue with the mythology and literature of ancient Greece. LÄS MER
4. Ariska idoler : Den indoeuropeiska mytologin som ideologi och vetenskap
Sammanfattning : By using ancient texts, medieval documents, philological observations, and archaeological artifacts, scholars have reconstructed a prehistorical world and religion. The people who upheld this culture have been named, inter alia, "Indo-Europeans", "Aryans", "Japhetites" and "Wiros". LÄS MER
5. Psychê : själens antropologi i det antika Grekland
Sammanfattning : The subject of the thesis is the psych�, a Greek word whose closest equivalent is the Swedish ?sj�l?, the English ?soul?, the French ?�me? and the German ?Seele?. The meanings of these words are far from being the same. What is more, the Greek psych� has shifting meanings, both synchronically and diachronically speaking. LÄS MER