The Writing of Orpheus
Subtitle: Greek Myth in Cultural Context
Contributors: Janet Lloyd (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: November 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780801869549
Subjects: Ancient Greek religion; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Myths & mythology; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; BCE to c 500 CE; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Folklore & Mythology; Literary Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Ancient Greece; Ancient and Classical; Antiquities & Archaeology; Folklore & Mythology - Mythology; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Mythology, Greek
First sentence: Today, thinking about myth involves, first, recognizing and to some extent succumbing to the fascination that mythology and its imaginary representations continue, as always, to exert upon us and upon the history of our most intimate thinking.