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Muse on Madison Avenue

Hartigan, Karelisa V.
Muse on Madison Avenue
Classical mythology frequently serves to promote the good life as defined by American advertising. This book shows how the myths of ancient Greece permeate the persuasive work of Madison Avenue, where advertising promotes a desirable world and lifestyle. In antiquity, a community's myths defined and sustained a common social order, in modern times advertising plays this role. The designers of American advertising have turned to classical myth ...

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Performance and Cure

Hartigan, Karelisa V.
Performance and Cure
Karelisa Hartigan here suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient experienced at the sanctuary. Patients who viewed this drama were ready to receive the nightly ministrations of the deity, his attendants and his animals while they slept in the dormitory...

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