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Pages: 373
Pages: 373
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-12-10 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Language: en
Pages: 373
Pages: 373
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-08 - Publisher: Cornell University Press
Friedrich Solmsen provides a new approach to Hesiod's personality in this book by distinguishing Hesiod's own contributions to Greek mythology and theology from
Language: en
Pages: 283
Pages: 283
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Stephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman tex
Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-05 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
A. A. Long’s study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind