Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xviii, 233 pp. Curling to front cover, else fine. Charles Segal surveys the literary treatment of the Orpheus myth as the myth of the essence of poetry - the ability to encounter the fullest possible intensity of beauty..... More
Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications, 1994. Soft Cover. 8vo. Fourth printing. Soft cover. 172 pp. Light offset panel and bubbling of lamination to head of rear cover, sporadic pencil underlining, else fine. The Gods have become diseases, said C.G. Jung, and these nine chapters show how major figures of the Greek..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. Soft Cover. 8vo. Tranlated by Margaret Cook. Originally published as L'invention de la Mythologie. Soft cover. xii, 179 pp. Spine sunned. Ink ownership inscription to half-title, some ink underlining and notes to interior. Int his fresh approach to the question of the origins..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1991. Soft Cover. 8vo. World of Art series. Soft cover. 256 pp. With 370 B&W illustrations. Light bumping and wear to corners, a few spots of neat pencil underlining and annotation. The Greek myths are so much a part of our visual and literary culture that..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1967. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. xiv, 63 pp. Slight tanning to spine and rear cover and a faded price stamp to half-title, else a fine, bright copy with no annotations. More