The Vatican mythographers
"This book offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowedge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle Ages and beyond. The Latin texts were discovered in manuscripts in the Vatican library and published together in the nineteenth century. The three so-called Vatican Mythographers compiled, analyzed, interpreted and transmitted a vast collection of myths for use by students, poets, and artists."--Jacket.
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- Full title :The Vatican mythographers / Ronald E. Pepin.
Summary
"This book offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowedge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle Ages and beyond. The Latin texts were discovered in manuscripts in the Vatican library and published together in the nineteenth century. The three so-called Vatican Mythographers compiled, analyzed, interpreted and transmitted a vast collection of myths for use by students, poets, and artists."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2008.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Translated from the Latin.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 357 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780823228928, 0823228924
- oclc:ocn191846888
- LC Classification:PA6139.M9
- Dewey Decimal:292.1/3
Table of Contents
First Mythographer -- Second Mythographer -- Third Mythographer.
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