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STEPHEN KERSHAW FROM THE T R A N S L A T I O NĪ Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology © Basil Black well Ltd 1990 Based on The Dictionary of Classical Mythology English translation © Basil Black well 1986 First published in French as Dictionnaire de la Mythologie Grecque et Romaine © 1951 Presses Universitaires de France, Paris English translation first published 1986 Basil Blackwell Ltd 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 iJF, England Basil Blackwell Inc. Jacket design by Miller, Craig and Cocking Design Partnership Printed in Great Britain Reproduced by kind permission of the British Museum. Jacket illustration: Aphrodite riding a swan painted in flat tints on a cup by the Pistoxenos Painter. Pierre Grimal, born in Paris in 1912, was professor at the Faculté des Lettres at the Sorbonne until 1982 and is the author of many works of classical scholarship.
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The clear entry structure makes identifying classical allusions in other literature a straightforward task, and the work carries the pedigree of Grimal's full length dictionary, hailed by the Library Journal as an 'essential source'.
Brief definitions are thoroughly crossreferenced to short accounts of the main legends, making this an essential reference book for all students and general readers of the classics. In this short, easy-to-use dictionary, the entries concentrate on the main versions of each legend, and only the most significant variations are covered, in order to focus on the common core of classical literature. In keeping with Grimal's original dictionary (first published in 1951, in France) the concise version covers virtually all major characters, and eight genealogical tables present the principal complex relationships between gods and men. The Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology is a d tillation into brief form of the leading single-source dictionary of ancient Greek and Roman myths and legends.
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