Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception: A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology (Hardcover)

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day.

• Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day
• Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance
• Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance
• Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples