Python / Joseph Fontenrose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontenrose, Joseph, Author.

Series:

California Library Reprint Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (656 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE TO THE 1980 EDITION

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN FOOTNOTES

INTRODUCTION

I. APOLLO AND THE DRAGON

II. KYKNOS AND OTHER BAD CHARACTERS

III. PYTHON AND HIS DERIVATIVES

IV. ZEUS AND TYPHON

V. TYPHON AND PYTHON

VI. DRAGONESS AND LAMIA

VII. GOD AND DRAGON IN THE NEARER EAST

VIII. GOD AND DRAGON IN MESOPOTAMIA

IX. GOD AND DRAGON IN EGYPT AND INDIA

X. CHAOS AND COSMOS

XI. PERSEUS AND KADMOS

XII. HERAKLES

XIII. EARLIER FORMS OF THE DELPHIC MYTH

XIV. THE CORYCIAN CAVE

XV. THE RITUALS

CONCLUSION

APPENDICES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDICES

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520312760

0520312767

OCLC:

1198930540