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Building Laomedon’s Troy: A Northern Parallel. / Панченко, Дмитрий Вадимович.
In: Comparative Mythology, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2016, p. 27 – 32.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Building Laomedon’s Troy: A Northern Parallel
AU - Панченко, Дмитрий Вадимович
N1 - Building Laomedon’s Troy: A Northern Parallel // Comparative Mythology. 2016. Vol. 2. Issue 1. P. 27 – 32.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The strange servitude of Poseidon and Apollo to Laomedon who denies payment for construction of the wall of Troy and threatens the gods (Il. 7. 452–453 and 21. 441–457) can be explained in terms of the transformation of original motifs. Divine builders were originally busy with constructing the stronghold for the gods. Since the Olympian gods as shown by Homer no longer need a stronghold, the story of the glorious construction was relocated and combined with the motif known in folklore of a master and disciple working for a treacherous king.
AB - The strange servitude of Poseidon and Apollo to Laomedon who denies payment for construction of the wall of Troy and threatens the gods (Il. 7. 452–453 and 21. 441–457) can be explained in terms of the transformation of original motifs. Divine builders were originally busy with constructing the stronghold for the gods. Since the Olympian gods as shown by Homer no longer need a stronghold, the story of the glorious construction was relocated and combined with the motif known in folklore of a master and disciple working for a treacherous king.
KW - Greek mythology, Troy, Poseidon, Apollo, folklore
M3 - Article
VL - 2
SP - 27
EP - 32
JO - Comparative Mythology
JF - Comparative Mythology
SN - 2409-9899
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 39316754