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Heritage : The Metamorphoses of a Myth - John Warden

Heritage

The Metamorphoses of a Myth

By: John Warden (Editor)

Paperback | 15 December 1982

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The myth of Orpheus, shaman and teacher, musician and lover, is the subject of this book. It brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to present a conspectus of the myth's career, to show how it grows and changes to meet changing demands -- always different, yet always the same.
Early Greek evidence for the Orpheus myth and a speculative explanation of its origins are offered along with chapters on the treatments of the myth by Virgil and Ovid, on Orpheus and Christianity, and

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