- Paperback: 640 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (14 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192802895
- ISBN-13: 978-0192802897
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion offers a fully rounded and highly authoritative point of access to all aspects of ancient religious life and thought. Dr Simon Price and Dr Emily Kearns, area advisers for the third edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, have come together to select, revise, edit, and in some cases wholly recast, a large number of key entries from OCD to create this handy, accessible reference work on mythology and religion in the Graeco-Roman world. Bringing to the attention of a wider audience the authority and scholarly rigour of OCD, the Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion provides students, teachers, and general readers with an affordable comprehensive, and wide-ranging A-Z reference source. The Dictionary is unique in that in addition to Greek myths and Roman festivals it covers Greek and Roman religious places, monuments, religious personnel, divination, astrology, and magic, and also contains many entries on Judaism and Christianity in Greek and Roman times.
About the Author
Simon Price has been teaching Ancient History at Oxford since 1981; before that he was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. He has worked extensively on ancient religions, primarily Greek and Roman, but he is also interested in the relations between those religions and Judaism and Christianity. He also works on an archaeological field survey of Sphakia (South West Crete), and has a long-standing interest in the relations between material and written evidence.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This has every character in every Myth and Legend I can think of. From British Folklore to Ancient Greece, it is a great book to have handy if you enjoy reading up on myths and legends. Many of the stories I already know about but there are stories about characters in legend that I didn't know and it is enjoyable to read about them.
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Useful Reference, Fascinating Read
13 May 2004
Format:Hardcover
No doubt this book was intended as a reference work and will be used as such by those who purchase it, for the most part. But, being the rather rum fellow that I am, I read the book from cover to cover and must report that it makes a dashed good read, at least for the peculiar bunch who, like myself, enjoy reading through such compilations. Just one fascinating example: I should never have known, had I not read through the work, that, according to ancient folklore, "A man who sees them becomes possessed by nymphs. They punish unresponsive lovers...." or that "Around 400 BC inscriptions mention Archedemus from Thera....who withdrew to a cave to devote himself to a monklike worship of the Nymphs." Clearly, entries like these prove rich ground for pondering male/female relations. And this is just one example! The perfect book for the Classicist near you....or perhaps yourself.
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16 Nov 2006
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Exelent for the novise. Very recomendeble
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