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Language: en
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-16 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Greek myth comes to us through many different channels. Our best source for the ways that local communities told and used these stories is a travel guide from t
Language: en
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The author uses Pausanias's Periegesis to illuminate the spatial dynamics of Greek myth, showing how apparently conflicting local versions belonged to a unifyin
Language: en
Pages: 398
Pages: 398
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empi
Language: en
Pages: 295
Pages: 295
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05 - Publisher:
The Greek myths are characteristically fabulous; they are full of monsters, metamorphoses, and the supernatural. However, they could be told in other ways as we
Language: en
Pages: 385
Pages: 385
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-03 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Greek myths have long been admired as beautiful, thrilling stories but dismissed as serious objects of belief. For centuries scholars have held that Greek epics