"The enduring importance of his book The Golden Bough keeps J.G. Frazer's name prominent on the list of the most significant figures in modern religious studies. But by no means was Frazer the sole influence on myth-ritualism - the Cambridge-based school of thought most often as…
V.1. The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of med…
by Pontani, Filippomaria, Edmunds, Lowell, Montana, Fausto, Pagès, Joan, Fowler, Robert, Villagra, Nereida, Michels, Johanna, Pàmias, Jordi, Smith, Robert Scott, Montanari, Franco
fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes
Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinio…
by Pontani, Filippomaria, Edmunds, Lowell, Montana, Fausto, Pagès, Joan, Fowler, Robert, Villagra, Nereida, Michels, Johanna, Montanari, Franco, Pàmias, Jordi, Smith, Robert Scott
fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes
Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinio…
"Ever since Herodotus declared in his Histories that to preserve the memories of the great achievements of the Greeks and other nations he would count on their own stories, historians have debated whether and how they should deal with myth. Most have sided with Thucydides, who d…
Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mytho…
Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mytho…
