Screen LibraryGenealogy of the pagan gods. Volume II, Books VI- X /
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods' by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of...
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Harvard University Press
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Latin |
| Series: |
The I Tatti Renaissance library ;
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| Summary: |
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods' by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christian world. The complete work in fifteen books contains a meticulously organized genealogical tree identifying approximately 950 Greco-Roman mythological figures. The scope is enormous: 723 chapters include over a thousand citations from 200 Greek, Roman, medieva |
| Carrier Form: | 705 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 661-665) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780674975590 (hardback) : 0674975596 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PA |
| CLC: | B932 |
| Call Number: | B932/B664/v.2 |