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The Vatican mythographers / Ronald E. Pepin.
- Title
- The Vatican mythographers / Ronald E. Pepin.
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
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| Text | Request in advance | PA6139.M9 M9713 2008 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Pepin, Ronald E.
- Description
- ix, 357 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowedge about the survival of classical mythology from teh Carolingian era to the High Middle Ages and beyond. The Latin texts were discovered in manuscripts in the Vatican library and published together in the nineteenth century. The three so-called Vatican Mythographers compiled, analyzed, interpreted and transmitted a vast collection of myths for use by students, poets, and artists."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Medieval philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Mythographi Vaticani. English
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Medieval philosophy
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Early works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-346) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Latin.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- First Mythographer -- Second Mythographer -- Third Mythographer.
- ISBN
- 9780823228928 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0823228924 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008003832
- OCLC
- 191846888
- SCSB-12110472
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library