Author: Helmuth Kiesel
Publisher: Beck C. H.
Keywords: moderne, literarischen, der, geschichte
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2004-02-29
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3406511457
ISBN-13: 9783406511455

Author: Erika Tunner
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: amsterdamer, moderne, beitrage, zur, germanistik, neueren, der, nachwirkungen, lebenskraftige, eine, krankheit, ihre, literarischen, romantik
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 905183280X
ISBN-13: 9789051832808

Author: Peter Grossardt
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: mnemosyne, bibliotheca, classica, batava, supplements, supplementum, kultlegende, kalydnischen, meleagros, von, zur, literarischen, der, entwicklung, erzahlung
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $206.00
ISBN-10: 9004119523
ISBN-13: 9789004119529

The myth of the Calydonian boar-hunt belongs to the few great mythical cycles of the ancient world. Corresponding to this importance, this book contains a complete presentation of the literary sources of the Calydonian hunt and of the other adventures of its central hero Meleagros. The documents are arranged by genres and put into their literary context. Special attention is paid to the several lines and breaks of the tradition, which led to a spilt into different versions of the legend. Time and again it is observable that single poets used the myth as a functional element in a larger context