A Critical Edition of Alexander’s Ross’s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter
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Author | : John R. Glenn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 661 |
Release | : 2019-05-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780429682766 |
ISBN-13 | : 042968276X |
Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis A Critical Edition of Alexander’s Ross’s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter by : John R. Glenn
Book excerpt: First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but also served as a treasury of interpretation and commentary ingeniously explaining the facts in terms moral, theological, historical and scientific.