Cyclops: The Myth and Its Cultural History

by Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton

A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative investigation, this book seeks to demonstrate that there is far more to it than that - quite apart from the fact that in myths the Cyclopes are not always one-eyed

This book provides a detailed, innovative, and richly illustrated study of the myths relating to the Cyclopes from classical antiquity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198713770
• ISBN13: 9780198713777
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"