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Legend Builders of the West (Paperback)
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Legend Builders of the West (Paperback)
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Classical mythology came west from Greece, bearing the thoughts,
feelings, and distilled experiences of ancient peoples that have,
in turn, been formed by the skilled hands of artists into tangible
creations of beauty and significance. Before there were records to
preserve significant events, these stories were passed down in
tales and songs. Adapted and embellished by successive generations,
they were later written down and used to create art from many
different materials in different mediums. Within these stories and
the creations they inspired was an impulse either to recover the
secrets of something that had been lost or to create something new
from the old material. Young examines nine legends-Perseus and
Andromeda; Demeter and Persephone; Pyramus and Thisbe; Pygmalion
and Galatea; Daedalus and Icarus; Atlanta and Hippomenes; Philemon
and Baucis; Echo and Narcissus; and Pomona and Vertumnus-explaining
the legends themselves and tracing their dissemination through
centuries and civilizations and across various art forms. In
Young's view, classical mythology, through expressing humanity's
enthusiasms, visions, and talents, might well be considered the
\u201cskilled midwife\u201d of human civilization, proof of our
constant effort to possess life symbolically and express it through
arts.
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