Euhemerism and Its Uses : The Mortal Gods /: The Mortal Gods. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Syrithe Pugh.
• Editors: Pugh, Syrithe
• Contents: Introduction Syrithe Pugh 1. Gods in space and time: Callimachus and Euhemerus C. L. Caspers 2. Euhemerism in Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses Dalida Agri 3. Lactantius’ Euhemerism and its reception Elizabeth DaPalma Digeser and Avery Barboza 4. Grounding the gods: spreading geographical euhemerism from Servius to Boccaccio Amanda Gerber 5. Mythography as ethnography. Euhemerism in Giovanni Boccaccio’s explications of Mercury in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri David Lummus 6. Tracking Titan from Boccaccio to Milton: euhemerism and Tyrannomachy in the Renaissance Syrithe Pugh 7. ‘Canonized bones’: Shakespeare, Donne, and the euhemeristic aesthetic in early modern England Ethan John Guagliardo 8. Totus adest oculis ? Approaching euhemerism in Ben Jonson, His Part of King James His Royal and Magnificent Entertainment, 1604 Emma Buckley 9. ‘The Sins of Euemeros against truth and honesty’: Indo-European Comparative Mythology versus Euhemerism in Victorian Britain Michael D. Konaris 10. Frazer as euhemerist: he case of Osiris Robert A. Segal 11. Between reception and deception: the perennial problem with euhemerism Nickolas P. Roubekas
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages), (1 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000356601; 1000356604
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.