APOLLO

Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be cro ssed: Apollo the sun god. From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the oppositio n between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world. For students of Greek religion and culture, of myth and legend, and in the fields of art and literatu...[Llegir més]