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The Library (2 volumes)

Door Apollodorus

Categorie	Klassieke Oudheid
Boeknummer	#422144-YF15
Titel	The Library (2 volumes)
Auteur	Apollodorus
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Cambridge, MA/London : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	0674991354
ISBN13	9780674991354
Taal	Engels, Overig
Beschrijving	2 uniform original gilt lettered green cloths, dust jackets, translated by J.G. Frazer, LIX,(1),403,(1)+(6),546 pages, reprinted, text in Greek and English, 8vo. Loeb Classical Library 121 and 122. ISBN volume I: 9780674991354 and ISBN volume II: 9780674991361.
Samenvatting	Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC) but probably composed in the first or second century AD, the Library provides an expansive summary of Greek myths and heroic legends about the origin and early history of the world. Antiquity's most influential mythological handbook. The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources. It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race. This work has been attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC), a student of Aristarchus. But the text as we have it was written by an author probably living in the first or second centu... (Lees verder)ry of our era. In his highly valued notes to the Loeb Classical Library edition (which is in two volumes) J. G. Frazer cites the principal passages of other ancient writers where each particular story is told and compares the various versions to those in the Library.
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