Companion to Greek Mythology by Dowden, Ken

Companion to Greek Mythology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781118785164)

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Companion to Greek Mythology by Dowden, Ken

Companion to Greek Mythology

$59.95
Companion to Greek Mythology by Dowden, Ken

Companion to Greek Mythology

$59.95
Format: Paperback
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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


Author: Ken Dowden
ISBN-10: 1118785169
ISBN-13: 9781118785164
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2014
Pages: 672
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.30d
By Ken Dowden
By Ken Dowden
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Ken Dowden is Professor of Classics and Head of the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Uses of Greek Mythology (1992), European Paganism (2000), and Zeus (2006).

Niall Livingstone is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Isocrates' Busiris (2001) and Epigram (with G. Nisbet, 2010).

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