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Author:   Syrithe Pugh
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367557010

ISBN 10:   0367557010
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction 1. Gods in space and time: Callimachus and Euhemerus 2. Euhemerism in Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses 3. Lactantius’ Euhemerism and its reception 4. Grounding the gods: spreading geographical euhemerism from Servius to Boccaccio 5. Mythography as ethnography. Euhemerism in Giovanni Boccaccio’s explications of Mercury in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri 6. Tracking Titan from Boccaccio to Milton: euhemerism and Tyrannomachy in the Renaissance 7. ‘Canonized bones’: Shakespeare, Donne, and the euhemeristic aesthetic in early modern England 8. Totus adest oculis? Approaching euhemerism in Ben Jonson, His Part of King James His Royal and Magnificent Entertainment, 1604 9. ‘The sins of Euemeros against truth and honesty’: Indo-European Comparative Mythology versus Euhemerism in Victorian Britain 10. Frazer as euhemerist: the case of Osiris 11. Between reception and deception: the perennial problem with euhemerism Appendix: the Euhemerus testimonia (edited and translated by C. L. Caspers)

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Syrithe Pugh is Reader in the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. Her research focusses on the reception of classical literature during the Renaissance period.

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