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- From: cpshelle@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley)
- Subject: Re: Greek and Roman Mythology (A question about Apollo)
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- References: <1992Jul24.174605.33171@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:03:55 GMT
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- yozzo@watson.ibm.com writes:
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- > And why is that the Romans borrowed their myths from the Greeks
- > and did not invent their own?
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- Check out the following books, and any your library might have on the
- etruscans. The romans got a fair amount of their greek mythology
- second hand through that route. I think you'll find Grant's book
- helpful in answering your question.
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- author : Dumezil, G.
- title : Archaic Roman Religion
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- publisher: University of Chicago Press (1966) 1970
- isbn :
- call_no : BL 802.D813
- keys : myth roman
- comments : THE book on Roman religion, so far as I can tell. 2 vols.
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- author : Grant, M.
- title : Roman Myths
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- publisher: Penguin 1973
- isbn : 0-140-21706-1
- call_no : BL 802.G7
- keys : myth roman
- comments : another good Penguin reader.
- : Topics: Sources; Aeneas; Romulus; the Kings; the Republic;
- : Theories of interpretation.
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