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Metamorphosis in Greek Myths (Paperback, Revised)
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Metamorphosis in Greek Myths (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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The transformation of human beings to animals, plants, and stones
is one of the commonest and most characteristic themes of Greek
mythology; whereas many cultures contain some such stories, in none
are they so popular as in the Greek myths. Transformations are also
some of the most mysterious and fantastic episodes in Greek
mythology. Given the intriguing nature of the subject-matter, it is
surprising that no study of these stories has ever appeared in
English. But this book is unusual in its approach. Studies of Greek
myths have usually tended to try to explain them away in terms of
some external entity, whether it be some hypothetical ritual, some
curious phenomenum of nature or some long-forgotten historical
event. The book argues that this attitude ignores what is of most
interest about Greek myths - their appeal as stories. The author
analyses the various ways in which these stories imagine and
explore what it means for a person to change his or her form.
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