Euhemerism and Its Uses: The Mortal Gods

ISBN-13: 9780367556990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 336 str.

Syrithe Pugh

Opis

Euhemerism and Its Uses is an inter-disciplinary volume, bringing together experts on classical, mediaeval and Renaissance literature, theory of myth and religious studies to give the first focussed and all-round view of the phenomenon across the long history of its evolution.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Gods in space and time: Callimachus and Euhemerus  2. Euhemerism in Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses  3. Lactantius’ Euhemerism and its reception  4. Grounding the gods: spreading geographical euhemerism from Servius to Boccaccio  5. Mythography as ethnography. Euhemerism in Giovanni Boccaccio’s explications of Mercury in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri  6. Tracking Titan from Boccaccio to Milton: euhemerism and Tyrannomachy in the Renaissance  7. ‘Canonized bones’: Shakespeare, Donne, and the euhemeristic aesthetic in early modern England  8. Totus adest oculis? Approaching euhemerism in Ben Jonson, His Part of King James His Royal and Magnificent Entertainment, 1604  9. ‘The sins of Euemeros against truth and honesty’: Indo-European Comparative Mythology versus Euhemerism in Victorian Britain  10. Frazer as euhemerist: the case of Osiris  11. Between reception and deception: the perennial problem with euhemerism  Appendix: the Euhemerus testimonia (edited and translated by C. L. Caspers)

O autorze

Syrithe Pugh is Reader in the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen. Her research focusses on the reception of classical literature during the Renaissance period.