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Author_Fritz Graf
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Greek myths mythology introduction ancient Greece myth interpretation epic poetry Greek literature myth and religion Greek festivals myth and tragedy philosophers allegory myth analysis literary sources artistic sources
Product details
- ISBN 9780801853951
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Dec 1993
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This revised translation of Fritz Graf's highly acclaimed introduction to Greek mythology offers a chronological account of the principal Greek myths that appear in the surviving literary and artistic sources and concurrently documents the history of interpretation of Greek mythology from the 17th century to the present. First surveying the various definitions of myth that have been advanced, Graf proceeds to examine topics such as the relationship between Greek myths and epic poetry, the connection between particular myths and shrines or holy festivals, the use of myth in Greek song and tragedy, and the uses and interpretations of myth by philosophers and allegorists.
Fritz Graf is professor of philology in the Seminar for Classical Philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Thomas Marier is in the Department of Classics at the Johns Hopkins University.
