Forms of Astonishment : Greek Myths of Metamorphosis
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199245495
ISBN-13
9780199245499
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 23rd, 2009
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
541 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 14.40 x 1.90 cms
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An illustrated study of a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Richard Buxton poses the question of how seriously the Greeks took these tales, and in doing so also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.
Forms of Astonishment sets out to interpret a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Such tales have become familiar in their Ovidian dress, as in the best-selling translation by Ted Hughes; Richard Buxton explores their Greek antecedents. One pressing question which often occurs to the reader of these tales is: Did the Greeks take them seriously? Buxton repeatedly engages with this topic, and attempts to answer it context by context and author by author. His book raises issues relevant to an understanding of broad aspects of Greek culture (e.g. how ''strange'' were Greek beliefs?''); in so doing, it also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.
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