Apollo (gods And Heroes Of The Ancient World)
by Fritz Graf /
2008 / English / EPUB
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Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the
most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be
crossed: Apollo the sun god.
Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the
most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be
crossed: Apollo the sun god.
From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex
question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo
and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf
examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of
Apollo in the ancient world.
From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex
question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo
and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf
examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of
Apollo in the ancient world.
For students of Greek religion and culture, of myth and legend,
and in the fields of art and literature,
For students of Greek religion and culture, of myth and legend,
and in the fields of art and literature,Apollo
Apollo will
provide an informative and enlightening introduction to this
powerful figure from the past.
will
provide an informative and enlightening introduction to this
powerful figure from the past.