{"title":"Athenian Autochthonous Kings and their Families: The Shared Patterns of their Myths","authors":"L. Edmunds","doi":"10.1353/are.2023.a899547","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The myths of four Athenian autochthonous kings (Kekrops, Kranaus, Erichthonius, Erechtheus) share a story pattern. The royal line extends only to the third generation and not always so far. The gene of autochthony does not persist beyond the second generation. The \"speaking names\" of the kings' wives and children overdetermine this pattern. Lévi-Strauss' notion of the affirmation and denial of their autochthony by the same people applies to these myths and is played out in fifth- and fourth-century Athens, when \"autochthonous\" may mean either \"born from the earth\" or simply \"indigenous.\"","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"56 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ARETHUSA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2023.a899547","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The myths of four Athenian autochthonous kings (Kekrops, Kranaus, Erichthonius, Erechtheus) share a story pattern. The royal line extends only to the third generation and not always so far. The gene of autochthony does not persist beyond the second generation. The "speaking names" of the kings' wives and children overdetermine this pattern. Lévi-Strauss' notion of the affirmation and denial of their autochthony by the same people applies to these myths and is played out in fifth- and fourth-century Athens, when "autochthonous" may mean either "born from the earth" or simply "indigenous."
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Arethusa is known for publishing original literary and cultural studies of the ancient world and of the field of classics that combine contemporary theoretical perspectives with more traditional approaches to literary and material evidence. Interdisciplinary in nature, this distinguished journal often features special thematic issues.
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