The Library, Volume I: Books 1â 3.9

Apollodorus

ISBN 10: 0674991354 / ISBN 13: 9780674991354

Verlag: Harvard University Press (edition 6), 1921

Beschreibung

With dust jacket. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0674991354-11-1-29

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Library, Volume I: Books 1â 3.9
• Verlag: Harvard University Press (edition 6)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1921
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674991354
• ISBN-13: 9780674991354
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 6.
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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Inhaltsangabe

Antiquity’s most influential mythological handbook.

The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources. It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race. This work has been attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC), a student of Aristarchus. But the text as we have it was written by an author probably living in the first or second century of our era.

In his highly valued notes to the Loeb Classical Library edition (which is in two volumes) J. G. Frazer cites the principal passages of other ancient writers where each particular story is told and compares the various versions to those in the Library.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941) was Fellow in Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge and an important figure in the development of modern social anthropology.