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Musaeus' Hero and Leander - Introduction, Greek Text, Translation and Commentary (Paperback)
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Musaeus' Hero and Leander - Introduction, Greek Text, Translation and Commentary (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Classical Translations
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This book offers a new English translation of Musaeus' poem Hero
and Leander, with the original Greek on the facing page, a
substantial introduction and a detailed commentary. The tragic
romance of Hero and Leander has had and still has a great appeal,
inspiring countless writers, painters, sculptors, and musicians.
The Introduction aims at situating the poem within its literary
tradition and cultural context as well as at drawing its major
themes and describing the salient features of its style. Because
Hero and Leander enjoyed an immense and uninterrupted popularity,
the Introduction also devotes a large section to the poem's
reception in literature, which crosses paths with the reception of
the other main ancient poetic treatment of the legend, Ovid's
Heroides 18 and 19. The commentary, which follows the Greek text
and its translation, is addressed to a variety of readers: the
student and the scholar of Greek literature, as well as those of
other literatures in which the poem has been inspirational. This
work has no precedent in the English language. This new translation
will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek and late
antique literature, as well as those working on mythology and
classical reception.
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