Forms of Astonishment sets out to interpret a number of Greek myths
about the transformations of humans and gods. Such tales have
become familiar in their Ovidian dress, as in the best-selling
translation by Ted Hughes; Richard Buxton explores their Greek
antecedents. One pressing question which often occurs to the reader
of these tales is: Did the Greeks take them seriously? Buxton
repeatedly engages with this topic, and attempts to answer it
context by context and author by author. His book raises issues
relevant to an understanding of broad aspects of Greek culture
(e.g. how 'strange' were Greek beliefs?'); in so doing, it also
illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of
religion.
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