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Orpheus : The Metamorphoses of a Myth / John Warden.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orpheus (Greek mythological character).
- Orpheus.
- Genre:
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Famous Orpheus / Emmet Robbins
- The Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid / W.S. Anderson
- The songs of Orpheus and the new song of Christ / Eleanor Irwin
- Sparagamos / Patricia Vicari
- Orpheus and Ficino / John Warden
- The myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance art, 1400-1600 / Giuseppe Scavizzi
- Orfeo and Euridice, the first two operas / Timothy J. McGee
- Orpheus and the Devil in Calderón's El Divino Orfeo c1634 / Pedro León.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-7980-2
- OCLC:
- 1129167755
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