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Early Greek Mythography - Volume 2: Commentary (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R9,361
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Early Greek Mythography - Volume 2: Commentary (Hardcover, New): Robert L. Fowler

Early Greek Mythography - Volume 2: Commentary (Hardcover, New)

Robert L. Fowler

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Greek mythology is known to us from various artistic and literary sources. Of the latter, the poetic sources (such as Homer and tragedy) are familiar to many readers, but the prose sources are much less so. Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2 is a detailed commentary on the texts of Early GreekMythography: Volume 1, which provided a critical edition of the twenty-nine authors of this genre of Greek prose from the late sixth to the early fourth centuries BC.
After a general introduction, this volume offers in its first part a mythological commentary on the texts, arranged according to the major topics of Greek mythology (the Trojan Cycle, Herakles, the Argonauts, etc.). The aim is to recover, so far as possible, what each writer said about the stories, with full consideration of their historical context and significance for Greek literature, mythology, and religion. The synoptic, topic-by-topic approach allows all the fragments pertinent to any given myth to be treated together, so that one can more easily identify variants and trends, and plot the history of the myth. The second part of the volume is a philological commentary on the separate authors, discussing their life, works, and contribution to the genre, as well as textual problems and non-mythological questions raised by individual fragments.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2013
First published: December 2013
Authors: Robert L. Fowler
Dimensions: 250 x 184 x 55mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 848
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-814741-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > Ancient Greek religion
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > Ancient Greek religion
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LSN: 0-19-814741-4
Barcode: 9780198147411

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