A Companion to Greek Mythology: (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)
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A Companion to Greek Mythology: (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)
A Companion to Greek Mythology: (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

A Companion to Greek Mythology: (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

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Ken Dowden (Contributor) Niall Livingstone (Contributor)  

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A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. * Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary experts * Includes coverage of Greek myth s intersection with history, philosophy and religion * Introduces readers to topics in mythology that are often inaccessible to non-specialists * Addresses the Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as Archaic and Classical Greece
Ken Dowden is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Uses of Greek Mythology (1992), European Paganism (2000), and Zeus (2006). Niall Livingstone is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Isocrates Busiris (2001) and, with Gideon Nisbet, a forthcoming book on Greek epigrams.
  • Contributor: Ken Dowden
  • Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
  • ISBN13: 9781405111782
  • Number of Pages: 672
  • Packaged Dimensions: 176x252x42mm
  • Packaged Weight: 1288
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Release Date: 2011-04-18
  • Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Ken Dowden is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Uses of Greek Mythology (1992), European Paganism (2000), and Zeus (2006). Niall Livingstone is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Isocrates Busiris (2001) and, with Gideon Nisbet, a forthcoming book on Greek epigrams.

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