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By Peter Green

This selection of essays represents Peter Green's observations on classical fantasy and is wide-ranging within the questions it asks, together with, what did the Greeks take into consideration fantasy? what elements have been accountable for it? what was once the position of magic and who designed it? From Hesiod's Works and Days , to Herodotus and Periclean Athens, to the mythicisation of Alexander's Alexandria, eco-friendly frequently units Greek delusion and historical past opposed to each other, starting the door `into non-rational and quasi-rational modes of proposal within which it turns into attainable to put in writing painful truths and unacceptable background'

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Argonautai,’’ 1, 2 (cf. Schefold 1993, 263–64 pl. 283 for this relief from the Sikyonian treasury at Delphi, c. ]. Phrixos and the ram: LIMC 1–16, 20–2745–48, 51, app. ]. v. v. ]. v. ‘‘Iason,’’ 22–24, 36–42, cf. ]. ]. v. ]. The authors vouching for his death include Ap. Rhod. 90–97, Apollod. 20, Hygin. Fab. 17. Theocr. 120–34 has Polydeukes stop short (but not far) of killing him, merely exacting a promise from him ‘‘never again deliberately to be a vexation to strangers’’ (134). v. ‘‘Amykos,’’ p.

P. Segonds, and L. 225 = fr. 49 Wehrli): τὸ δὲ λίαν μυθικὸν ἀφέντας εἰς τὸ διὰ τοῦ λόγου φυσικὸν ἀνάγειν. ’’ 31. The subject is vast, and I can no more than touch on it here. For Prodikos as anticipating Euhemeros, see Henrichs 1975, 1976, and 1984, 340–41. ). There is no satisfactory monograph: there are useful comments in the introduction and commentary of the Italian edition of G. Vallauri, Euemero di Messene (Turin, 1956). See also Fraser 1972, 1:289–95; Feeney 1991, 31–32; Henrichs 1984, 346–49; Buffière 1956, 245–48; Dowden 1992, 50.

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