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 | | Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore by Jennifer Larson ISBN-10: 9780195122947 ISBN-10: 0-19-512294-1 ISBN-13: 9780195122947 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512294-7 Hardcover 2001-06-28 Oxford University Press, USA Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Greek Nymphs: Myths, Cult, Lore is the first comprehensive study of the nymph in the ancient Greek world. This well-illustrated book examines nymphs as both religious and mythopoetic figures, tracing their development and significance in Greek culture from Homer through the Hellenistic period. Drawing upon a broad range of literary and archaeological evidence, Jennifer Larson discusses sexually powerful nymphs in ancient and modern Greek folklore, the use of dolls representing nymphs in the socialization of girls, the phenomenon of nympholepsy, the nymphs' relations with other deities in the Greek pantheon, and the nymphs' role in mythic narratives of city-founding and colonization. The book includes a survey of the evidence for myths and cults of the nymphs arranged by geographical region, and a special section of the worship of nymphs in caves throughout the Greek world. | ||
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Recommended This is a rewarding attempt to qualify the current scholarship on the Nymphs. A major asset of the book is its diachronic overview of the material, from ancient to Modern Greece. This provides a depth and perspective lacking from many similar endeavours in Classics. Methodologically, Larson leans rather to the psychosexual than to the structuralist analysis. The book could be improved in some respects. The chapter "Nymphs in Poetry" is somewhat overdrawn and repetitive. The book has a lot of typos when it comes to the Greek, especially the Modern. In general, however, Larson has provided us with a specimen of fresh scholarship. | ||
Nympholepsy! Although intended for the classicist, this excellent, erudite book is accessible to general readers (like me). Prof. Larson surveys everything that is known about nymphs, from their appearances in Greek literature to evidence of cult worship. She deals with little-known subjects like nympholepsy (which is NOT what Nabokov thought it was) and leads us on a tour of caves devoted to nymph worship. Illustrated with numerous black and white photos (but no Victorian paintings of nymphs; it isn't that kind of book). Hard to believe this is the first book on nymphs, but there will be no need for a second; this is definitive. | ||