MEDUSA:SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF THE GORGON P - Softcover

WILK, Stephen R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195341317 ISBN 13: 9780195341317

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Medusa presents a new and different look at the myth of Perseus and Medusa and its interpretation.

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Title: Medusa <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Stephen R. Wilk <>Publisher: Oxford University Press

Review

"The author's twenty years of devoted and penetrating research has netted so engagingly seined a catch of fact and fancy that he is close to persuasive about [the origins of Medusa's] gaze....Wilk is open, judicious, and critically candid about the broad collage he has so inventively explored. Good
to the last line of text, this rich book never even flirts with the sin of being boring."--Journal of the History of Astronomy
"As the author of this interesting new book demonstrates, the Gorgon was not only an unsually popular subject among Greek and Roman writers and artists, but she has also remained a favorite mythological character in modern times.... Wilk's in-depth study is a welcome addition to the scholarship
about her, containing both extensive review of previous interpretative theories and adding quite a few insightful new ideas of his own."--The Classical Outlook
"The author's twenty years of devoted and penetrating research has netted so engagingly seined a catch of fact and fancy that he is close to persuasive about [the origins of Medusa's] gaze....Wilk is open, judicious, and critically candid about the broad collage he has so inventively explored. Good
to the last line of text, this rich book never even flirts with the sin of being boring."--Journal of the History of Astronomy
"As the author of this interesting new book demonstrates, the Gorgon was not only an unsually popular subject among Greek and Roman writers and artists, but she has also remained a favorite mythological character in modern times.... Wilk's in-depth study is a welcome addition to the scholarship
about her, containing both extensive review of previous interpretative theories and adding quite a few insightful new ideas of his own."--The Classical Outlook
"The author's twenty years of devoted and penetrating research has netted so engagingly seined a catch of fact and fancy that he is close to persuasive about [the origins of Medusa's] gaze....Wilk is open, judicious, and critically candid about the broad collage he has so inventively explored. Good
to the last line of text, this rich book never even flirts with the sin of being boring."--Journal of the History of Astronomy
"As the author of this interesting new book demonstrates, the Gorgon was not only an unsually popular subject among Greek and Roman writers and artists, but she has also remained a favorite mythological character in modern times.... Wilk's in-depth study is a welcome addition to the scholarship
about her, containing both extensive review of previous interpretative theories and adding quite a few insightful new ideas of his own."--The Classical Outlook

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195341317
• ISBN 13: 9780195341317
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 291