Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Volume 1, Books 1-5

Giovanni Boccaccio

Harvard University Press, 2011 - Geography, Medieval

This is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christian world.

Contents

• Book I: 2
• Book II: 178
• Book III: 312
• Book IV: 408
• Book V: 618
• Note on the Text: 775
• Notes to the Text: 783
• Note on the Translation: 789
• Notes to the Translation: 793
• Bibliography: 827
• Index of Citations: 833
• Subject Index: 847

Bibliographic information

• Title: Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Volume 1, Books 1-5; Genealogy of the Pagan Gods, Giovanni Boccaccio; The I Tatti Renaissance library
• Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
• Editor: Jon Solomon
• Translated by: Jon Solomon
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0674057104, 9780674057104