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Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature. From the banishment of the c...(展开全部)

Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature. From the banishment of the c...(展开全部)

MONSTERS, MORTALS, GODS, AND WARRIORS For over fifty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only retells these stories with brilliant c...(展开全部)

The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditio...(展开全部)

查尔斯·西格尔（Charles Segal，1936-2002），美国古典学家。1961 年获哈佛大学博士学位。曾先后任教于宾夕法尼亚大学，布朗大学，普林斯顿大学，自1990 年起在哈佛大学担任希腊文和拉丁文教授。西格尔擅长古典文学，研究领域广阔，在奥维德、荷马、塞涅卡和欧里庇得斯的研究方面均有建树，尤以解读诗歌为胜，是20世纪最为高产的古典学家之一。一生发表论文无数，出版专著21 部，除本书外，代表作还包括Landscape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1969), Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles (1981，中文版三联书店即出), Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae (1982), Lucretiu...(展开全部)

Strangers, Gods and Monster is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Richard Kearney skillfully shows, with the help of vivid examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and ...(展开全部)