A Critical Edition of Alexander Ross's 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or The Muses Interpreter: The Renaissance Imagination

A Critical Edition of Alexander Ross's 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or The Muses Interpreter: The Renaissance Imagination
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
5 June 2019
Pages
660
ISBN
9780367022761

A Critical Edition of Alexander Ross’s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or The Muses Interpreter: The Renaissance Imagination

First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but also served as a treasury of interpretation and commentary ingeniously explaining the facts in terms moral, theological, historical and scientific. The critical edition brought this text alongside its counterparts, Cartari’s Imagini and Comes’ Mythologia, which had in recent years begun to receive the scholarly recognition they deserve. It constituted a preliminary essay at defining a distinctively English approach to mythological studies by focusing on the only original myth handbook produced in Renaissance England which in scope and intent may be placed next to the great compilations of the Continent.

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