Orpheus : : The Metamorphoses of a Myth /

Orpheus : : The Metamorphoses of a Myth / / ed. by John Warden.

The myth of Orpheus, shaman and teacher, musician and lover, is the subject of this book. It brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to present a conspectus of the myth's career, to show how it grows and changes to meet changing demands -- always different, yet always...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, W.S.,
Irwin, Eleanor,
León, Pedro,
McGee, Timothy J.,
Robbins, Emmet,
Scavizzi, Giuseppe,
Vicari, Patricia,
Warden, John,
HerausgeberIn:
Warden, John,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1982
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Famous Orpheus
  • The Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid
  • The Songs of Orpheus and the New Song of Christ
  • Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Christians
  • Orpheus and Ficino
  • The Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400-1600
  • Orfeo and Euridice, the First Two Operas
  • Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El divino Orfeo c 1634
  • The Triumph of Art, the Triumph of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton
  • Suggested Reading
  • Index

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