Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 4 days ago
Ships From - Missouri
Est. Publication Date - Dec 2004
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This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks. In addition to the complete texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this collection provides generous selections from over 50 texts composed between the Archaic Age and the fourth century A.D. Ancient interpretation of myth is represented here in selections from the allegorists Heraclitus, Cornutus and Fulgentius, the rationalists Palaephatus and Diodorus of Sicily, and the philosophers and historians Plato, Herodotus and Thucydides. Appendices treat evidence from inscriptions, papyri and Linear B tablets and include a thematic index, a mythological dictionary, and genealogies. A thoughtful Introduction supports students working with the primary sources and the other resources offered here; an extensive note to instructors offers suggestions on how to incorporate this book into their courses.
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Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation
ISBN: 9780872207219
Publisher Description
This new edition of "Anthology of Classical Myth" offers selections from key Near Eastern texts the Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh," "Epic of Creation" ("Enuma Elish"), and "Atrahasis"; the Hittite "So...
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