Orpheus: The Metamorphoses of a Myth
ISBN: 9781487579807
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Orpheus -- Legends -- History and criticism -- Addresses essays lectures;

The myth of Orpheus, shaman and teacher, musician and lover, is the subject of this book. It brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to present a conspectus of the myth's career, to show how it grows and changes to meet changing demands -- always different, yet always the same.

Warden John :

JOHN WARDEN is a member of the department of Classics at the University of Toronto. He is author of Fallax opus: Poet and Reader in the Elegies of Propertius.


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