Apollo

by Fritz Graf

Book Overview

Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god.

From his first attestations in Homer, through the complex question of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415317118
• ISBN13: 9780415317115
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"