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New York: OUP for the American Philological Association, Date: 2004. Pp. xvi+346. Condition: Very good in very good dustwrapper (RRP 2020 £107.50) 2004. First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover, 362 pages ISBN 0195171217 9780195171211 [GB]
ISBN10: 0195171217, ISBN13: 9780195171211, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories one would not understand most of the allusions in the poets and orators, classics and contemporaries alike; nor would one be able to identify the scenes represented on the mosaic floors and wall paintings in your cultivated friends' houses, or on the silverware ontheir tables at dinner.Mythology was no longer imbibed in the nursery; nor could it be simply picked up from the often oblique allusions in the classics. It had to be learned inschool, as illustrated by the extraordinary amount of elementary mythological information in the many surviving ancient commentaries on the classics, notably Servius, who offers a mythical story for almost every person, place, and even plant Vergil mentions. Commentators used the classics as pegs on which to hang stories they thought their students should know.A surprisingly large number of mythographic treatises survive from the early empire, and many papyrus fragmentsfrom lost works prove that they were in common use. In addition, author Alan Cameron identifies a hitherto unrecognized type of aid to the reading of Greek and Latin classical and classicizingtexts--what might be called mythographic companions to learned ...
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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2004 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 368 p. Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies, 48.
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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2004 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 368 p. Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies, 48.
Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2004 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 368 p. Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies, 48.
ISBN10: 0195171217, ISBN13: 9780195171211, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2004]
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