Author: DETIENNE, Marcel
Title: The Writing of Orpheus: Greek Myth in Cultural Contact
Description: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Translation by Janet Lloyd. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering. xv, 199pp. Near fine. Faint library name inkstamp on top and bottom page edges; light abrasion on rear flyleaf. A tight and nice first English-language edition of this study originally published in French in 1989. Interestingly,tipped to front pastedown and front flyleaf are 5" X 6½" color postcards showing a metope closeup and Apollo statue from the temple of Zeus at Olympia -- loosely associated with the mythological musician/poet Orpheus. .

Keywords: Ancient World


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