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Index
Preface
Introduction
Part I
COLOR SEMANTICS
Chapter One
The Significance (or Insignificance) of Blackness in Mythological Names
Chapter Two
Dark Skin and Dark Deeds
Danaids and Aigyptioi in a Culture of Light
Chapter Three
Brightness and Darkness inPindar’s Pythian 3
Aigla-Koronis-Arsinoë and Her Coming of Age
Chapter Four
S-light Anomaly
Dark Brightness in Euripides’ Medea
Part II
APPEARANCE AND CONCEALMENT
Chapter Five
The Light Imagery of Divine Manifestation in Homer1
Chapter Six
Trojan Night
Chapter Seven
Tithonus and Phaon
Mythical Allegories of Light and Darkness in Sappho’s Poetry
Chapter Eight
Erinyes as Creatures of Darkness
Chapter Nine
Journey into Light and Honors in Darkness in Hesiod and Aeschylus1
Chapter Ten
Hephaestus in Homer’s Epics1
God of Fire, God of Life
Part III
EYE-SIGHT/INSIGHT
Chapter Eleven
To See or Not to See
Blind People and Blindnessin Ancient Greek Myths
Chapter Twelve
Blindness as Punishment*
Part IV
BEING AND BEYOND
Chapter Thirteen
Light and Darknessand Archaic Greek Cosmography
Chapter Fourteen
Mystic Light and Near-Death Experience
Chapter Fifteen
Dark-Winged Nyx and the Bright-Winged Eros in Aristophanes’ “Orphic” Cosmogony
The Birds
Chapter Sixteen
The Bright Cypress of the “Orphic”Gold Tablets
Direction and Illuminationin Myths of the Underworld
Part V
CULT
Chapter Seventeen
Light and Darkness in DionysiacRituals as Illustrated on Attic Vase Paintings of the 5th Century BCE
Chapter Eighteen
Light and Lighting Equipment in the Eleusinian Mysteries
Symbolism and Ritual Use
Chapter Nineteen
Magic Lamps, Luminous Dreams
Lamps in PGM Recipes
Index
About the editors
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