The Myths of Herakles in Ancient Greece: Survey and Profile - Softcover

Padilla, Mark W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076181051X ISBN 13: 9780761810513

Publisher: University Press Of America, 1998

Synopsis

The Myths of Herakles in Ancient Greece surveys the rich legacy of Herakles's representations during the Archaic and Early Classical periods and joins to this survey a scholarly apparatus that summarizes and refers to a good portion of the work completed on the meanings and descriptions of these manifestations. Organized into complementing 'synchronic' and 'diachronic' perspectives, the Greeks' most popular but also most complex 'hero-god' emerges to the reader in a straightforwardly written appreciation.

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About the Author

Mark W. Padilla is Associate Dean of Faculty and Associate Professor of Classics at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076181051X
• ISBN 13: 9780761810513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112