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Two allegorical ancient Greek stories about a young hero’s career- defining choice are shown in this book to have later been appropriated to radically differing effects. E.g. a male’s choice between female personifications can morph into a female’s choice between the same, or between various male personifications. Never before have so many instances of this process from art, literature, music, even landscape gardening, been culled. Illustrations, mainly colour, many brought into this context for the first time, are conveniently incorporated into the text, thus mimetically mirroring a central theme of the book, the process of ‘visualising the verbal, verbalising the visual.’

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Professor Malcolm Davies Ph. D. (1979) has spent his entire academic life at Oxford. He has published 10 books and numerous articles on a wide range of Greek literature, most recently a commentary on lesser and anonymous fragments of Greek lyric poetry (2021).

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