Professor Richard G A Buxton

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• 2013

  Feminized Males in Bakchai: The Importance of Discrimination

  Buxton, R. G. A., 2013, Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts. Oxford : Oxford University Press, p. 219-240

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• Movement and Stillness: Versions of Medea

  Buxton, R. G. A., 2013, Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts. Oxford : Oxford University Press, p. 99-118

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• Mythological Names: The Case of melas

  Buxton, R. G. A., 2013, Myths and Tragedies in their Ancient Greek Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 53-71

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
• 2010

  En el principio. Los orígines de los seres humanos en la mitología griega y en algunas otras mitologías

  Buxton, R., 2010, Mitos sobre el origen del hombre. Bernabé, A. & Tudela, J. P. D. (eds.). Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, p. 33 - 57 25 p.

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• How Medea moves: versions of a myth in Apollonius and elsewhere

  Buxton, R. G. A., 2010, Unbinding Medea: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Classical Myth from Antiquity to the 21st Century. Bartel, H. & Simon, A. (eds.). Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA), p. 25 - 38 14 p.

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• Metamorphoses of Gods into Animals and Humans

  Buxton, R., 2010, Gods of Ancient Greece. Bremmer, J. N. & Erskine, A. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 81 - 91 11 p.

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  8 Citations (Scopus)

• The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names

  Buxton, R., 2010, Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion. Christopoulos, M., Karakantza, E. D. & Levaniouk, O. (eds.). Lexington Books, Lanham, p. 3 - 13 11 p.

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• The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names

  Buxton, R. G. A., 2010, Myths, Martyrs, and Modernity. Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer. Dijkstra, J., Kroesen, J. & Kuiper, Y. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, p. 31 - 41 11 p.

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  1 Citation (Scopus)
• 2009

  Feminized males in Bacchae: the importance of discrimination

  Buxton, R. G. A., 2009, Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition. Goldhill, S. & Hall, E. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 232 - 250 19 p.

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• What can myths of metamorphosis tell us about ancient Greek religion?

  Buxton, R., 2009, Religion: Lehre und Praxis. Akten des Kolloquiums Basel, 22. Oktober 2004. Archaiognosia, Supplementband Nr 8. Jaeger, B. & Muller, P. (eds.). University of Athens, p. 49 - 59 11 p.

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• 'What can myths of metamorphosis tell us about ancient Greek religion?'

  Buxton, R., 2009, Religion. Lehre und Praxis.. Athens: University of Athens, p. 49-59 11 p. (Archaiognosia).

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• 2007

  Tragedy and Greek Myth

  Buxton, R., 2007, Cambridge Companion to Greek Myth. Woodard, R. D. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 166 - 189 24 p.

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  9 Citations (Scopus)
• 2006

  Weapons and Day's White Horses: the Language of Ajax

  Buxton, R., 2006, Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics. De Jong, I. & Rijksbaron, A. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, p. 13-23 11 p.

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• 2004

  Ariadne

  Buxton, R., 2004, Eros in Ancient Greece.  

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• Cretan love or the complicated fates of Ariadne

  Buxton, R., 2004, Russian Anthropological School Works. Ivanov, V. (ed.). Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Vol. 1. p. 302 - 309

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• Similes and other likenesses

  Buxton, R., 2004, The Cambridge Companion to Homer. Fowler, R. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 139 - 155 17 p.

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  33 Citations (Scopus)

• 'Threskeia kai Muthos'

  Buxton, R., 2004, E Eikonographemene storia tes Archaias Elladas. Cartledge, P. (ed.). S.I. Zacharopoulos, p. 320 - 344 25 p.

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• 2003

  Euripides, Alkestis : five aspects of an interpretation

  Buxton, R., 2003, Euripides. Mossman, J. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 170 - 186

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• 2002

  The Myth of Talos

  Buxton, R., 2002, Monsters and Monstrosity in Greek and Roman Culture. Atherton, C. (ed.). Bari: Levante Editori, p. 83 - 112 30 p.

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• Time, space and ideology: tragic myths and the Athenian polis

  Buxton, R., 2002, Mitos en la literatura griega arcaica y clásica. Férez, J. A. L. (ed.). Ediciones Clásicas, Madrid, p. 175 - 198 23 p.

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• 2000

  Les yeux de Medee

  Buxton, R., 2000, La Magie. Moreau, A. & , J.-C. T. (eds.). Montpellier

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• Religion und Mythos

  Buxton, R., 2000, Kulturgeschichte Griechenlands in der Antike. Cartledge, P. (ed.). J.B. Metzler, p. 324 - 348 25 p.

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• The Myth of Talos

  Buxton, R., 2000, Nottingham Classical Literature Studies 6. Atherton, C. (ed.). University of Nottingham

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• 1998

  Greek Tragedy

  Buxton, R., 1998, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Vol 4. Kelly, M. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 396 - 399

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• Religion and Myth

  Buxton, R., 1998, Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece. Cartledge, P. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 320 - 344

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• 1997

  Religion and myth

  Buxton, R., 1997, Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece. Cartledge, P. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 320 - 344

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• 1996

  What can you rely on in Oedipus Rex?

  Buxton, R., 1996, Tragedy and the Tragic. Silk, M. S. (ed.). Oxford University Press, p. 38 - 48

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• 1992

  'Le Centaure anglais: l'espace "initiatique" dans Henry IV de Shakespeare

  Buxton, R., 1992, L'Initiation, Vol II. Moreau, A. (ed.). Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier, p. 153 - 161 8 p.

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• 1990

  Blindness and limits: Sophocles and the logic of myth

  Buxton, R., 1990, Modern Critical Views: Sophocles. Bloom, H. (ed.). Chelsea House, p. 105 - 126 21 p.

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• 1988

  Myth and Mythology

  Buxton, R., 1988, Macropaedia of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Britannica, Vol. 24. p. 710 - 727 18 p.

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• 1987

  The Gods in Sophocles

  Buxton, R., 1987, Diethnis Synantisi Archaiou Ellinikou Dramatos. Athens, p. 9 - 14 6 p.

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• Wolves and werewolves in Greek thought

  Buxton, R., 1987, Interpretations of Greek Mythology. Bremmer, J. N. (ed.). Croom Helm, p. 60 - 79 20 p.

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