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These forty-one tales written in the second century AD by Greek
author Antoninus Liberalis and translated from the Greek for the
first time, offer an unusual insight into the preoccupations and
legends of antiquity. These tales are quirky, exciting and
sometimes disturbing. Many have relevance for modern as well as
classical understanding of psychology and the imagination. Each
story is usefully provided with full annotation and commentary.
Legends which told of the transformation of men and women, heroes
and nymphs, into animals, stars, plants, fountains and rocks, were
widespread and of deep significance for people in the classical
world. This collection of 41 Greek myths and legends by Antoninus
Liberalis, here translated into English for the first time, is a
unique source of such tales. The manner of the narrative, laconic
as well as picaresque, adds relish to their oddity. The variant of
the story of Cephalus and Procris where the heroine practices sex
therapy on King Minos, the transformation of the arrogant musician
Cerambus into a champing beetle, the change of Hylas into an echo
that rang through real communities and landscapes for over a
millenium, the numerous consequences of rape, incest, mockery or
heedlessness: all these offer food for psychological speculation as
well as for narrative pleasure. Many of the tales would have
startled Freud or puzzled Jung. The commentary, which is fuller
than that usually supplied with most translations, furnishes
parallels and explanatory materials to help those who wish to
follow a tale through its numerous contexts and ramifications. This
book should be of interest to
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edition identification: ++++ Antonini Liberalis Transformationum
Congeries Antoninus Liberalis, Xylander Apud Sam. et Joan.
Luchtmans, 1774 Literary Criticism; Ancient & Classical;
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
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