From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern by Green, Peter

University of Texas Press, 2010. Paperback. New. 324 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches.

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University of Texas Press, 2004. Paperback. New. ***Signed by Author*** New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 1 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature on title page. Book is from the personal library of Professor Green. Includes appendices [2], bibliography and an index. 348 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "I hadn't, till I really started digging, gauged the fierce intensity of the need for myth in the human psyche, of any age, or sensed the variety of motives dictating that need," writes Peter Green in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays on classical mythology and the mythic experience. Using the need for myth as the starting point for exploring a number of topics in Greek mythology and history, Green advances new ideas about why the human urge to make myths persists across the millennia and why the borderland between mythology and history can sometimes be hard to map. Green looks at both specific… Read More