The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion

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THE INDISPENSABLE REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE MYTHS AND RELIGIONS OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD
'this is a perfectly judged REFERENCE BOOK: equally good for desktop or bedside, combining scholarship for the specialist, concision for the student, readability for the enthusiast and fun for the browser. The well chosen entries capture the spirit of the subject, disclosing the dark side of the ancient Mediterranean, bringing the gods down from Olympus, and piercing the glittering surface of Greek and Roman thought to expose the rites and revels, mysteries and muddle. Local and popular religion get due attention. We get closer to the truth of ancient mentalities, riven by pluraUsm, particularism and local identities. The brilliant introduction sets just the right tone of learning lightly borne: thoughtful and theoretically informed, but brisk, practical, insightful and comprehensive.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Professorial Fellow in History and Geography,
Queen Mary, University of London
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Fülszöveg

THE INDISPENSABLE REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE MYTHS AND RELIGIONS OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD
'this is a perfectly judged REFERENCE BOOK: equally good for desktop or bedside, combining scholarship for the specialist, concision for the student, readability for the enthusiast and fun for the browser. The well chosen entries capture the spirit of the subject, disclosing the dark side of the ancient Mediterranean, bringing the gods down from Olympus, and piercing the glittering surface of Greek and Roman thought to expose the rites and revels, mysteries and muddle. Local and popular religion get due attention. We get closer to the truth of ancient mentalities, riven by pluraUsm, particularism and local identities. The brilliant introduction sets just the right tone of learning lightly borne: thoughtful and theoretically informed, but brisk, practical, insightful and comprehensive.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Professorial Fellow in History and Geography,
Queen Mary, University of London
• The first fully authoritative reference work on classical myth and religion, ideal for anyone fascinated with the classical period
• Based on the scholarship of The Oxford Classical Dictionary
• Introductory essay on classical mythology, religious plurahsm in the ancient world, and the reception of myths from antiquity to the present
• Three maps, six genealogies, thematic index listing entries by topic, full bibliography
• 1,650 A-Z entries, 350,000 words
Simon Price has been teaching Ancient History at Oxford since 1981. He has worked extensively on Greek and Roman religions, and on the relations between those religions and Judaism and Christianity. He also works on an archaeological field survey of Sphakia (South West Crete), and has a long-standing interest in the relations between material and written evidence.
Emily Kearns has held various teaching appointments in Oxford and London and since 1990 has been a lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is interested mainly in the field of Greek religion, but she also works on aspects of ancient literature and has published in the area of Neo-Latin Studies.
Cover illustration: detail of a fresco in the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii © Villa of the Mysteries. Photo: Scala, Florence, courtesy of the Ministry of Culture Vissza