Author : Alan Cameron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0195171217
By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture, and become instead a central element in elite culture. This book illustrates the importance of semi-learned mythographic handbooks in the social, literary, and artistic world of Rome. One of the most intriguing features of these works is the fact that they all cite classical sources for the stories they tell, sources which are often forged.