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Classical mythology in literature, art, and music / Philip Mayerson.
- Title
- Classical mythology in literature, art, and music / Philip Mayerson.
- Author
- Mayerson, Philip
- Publication
- Newburyport, MA : Focus Pub., c2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | NX650.M9 M38 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 509 p. : ill., map; 26 cm.
- Summary
- This standard illustrated work covers the gods and heroes of the Classical world, with special emphasis on the influence Classical mythology has had on literature, art and music in Western civilization.
- Series Statement
- Focus classical library
- Uniform Title
- Focus classical library
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Wiley, c1971.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-487) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Myths and mythographers of Greece and Rome -- Cosmogony and theogony: Greek myths of the creation -- Battles of the Titans and the rise of Zeus -- The gods on Mount Olympus -- The house of Hades: the gods of the underworld -- Dionysus and Orpheus: God and man, myth and mystery -- The age of heroes -- The Trojan War -- The homecomings -- Aeneas and the quest for a new Troy.
- ISBN
- 1585100366 (pbk.)
- 9781585100361 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^82000772^
- OCLC
- 47722713
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library