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Warden, John

ORPHEUS The Metamorphoses of a Myth Good+ with no dust jacket

University of Toronto Press, 1982

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Year of publication
1982
Author
Warden, John
Publishers
University of Toronto Press
Keyword
Religion & Spirituality History & Criticism Literature & Fiction, Greek & Roman Mythology Paganism Orpheus Mythology Myth
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0802055184

Description

Dampstaining to lower corners of last few pages. Does not affect text. ; 272 pages; The Myth of Orpheus, shaman and teacher, musician and lover, is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ (Eleanor Irwin) ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians (Patricia Vicari) ; Orpheus and Ficino (Warden) ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400-1600 (Scavizzi) ; Orfeo and Euridice, the first two operas (Timothy J. McGee) ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 (Pedro Leon) ; Triumph of Art, of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton (Vicari).