By Fritz Graf
Fritz Graf right here provides a survey of a god as soon as considered the main robust of gods, and able to nice wrath should still he be crossed: Apollo the sunlight god.
From his first attestations in Homer, during the advanced query of pre-Homeric Apollo, to the competition among Apollo and Dionysos in 19th and twentieth-century considering, Graf examines Greek faith and delusion to supply a whole account of Apollo within the historic world.
For scholars of Greek faith and tradition, of delusion and legend, and within the fields of artwork and literature, Apollo will offer an informative and enlightening creation to this strong determine from the past.
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