Offering an analysis of how myths played a fundamental role in the lives of the Greeks, this study of the relationship between reality and fantasy focuses on three case studies--the landscape, the family and religion. It demonstrates how Greek mythology is a product of its people, place and time.

This is a study of Greek myths in relation to the society in which they were originally told. It does not re-tell the myths; rather, it offers an analysis of how myths played a fundamental role in the lives of the Greeks. The relation between reality and fantasy is discussed by means of three case studies: the landscape, the family, and religion. Most of all, this book seeks to...(展开全部)

Pierre Lévêque 法国佛朗什—孔戴大学的希腊史教授，撰有多种讨论希腊文化与历史的著作，如《希腊诸神》《帝国与蛮族》。后又对宗教史发生兴趣。

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present, influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It p...(展开全部)

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present, influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It p...(展开全部)

The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the "strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination." This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius,...(展开全部)

A.曼古埃尔 (Alberto Manguel)，翻译家、编辑和散文家，著有包括《阅读史》(A History of Reading) 在内的十余部畅销书。 G.盖德鲁培 (Gianni Guadalupi)，翻译家，译有多部意大利语经典著作，编过数本文集，同时也是一位激情满怀的藏书家。 译者 赵蓉，毕业于四川外国语大学研究生院，主要研究方向为英美文化与文学，现任西南交通大学外国语学院翻译系讲师，译有阿鲁里斯的《莎士比亚的政治盛典》和曼古埃尔的《想象地名》；合译有《古典诗文绎读现代编》和《荷马笔下的伦理》。

The Book of Imaginary Beings is Borges’s whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the "strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination." This unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world’s mythologies and literatures to bring together the fantastical inventions drawn from the Kabbalah, Homer, Confucius,...(展开全部)