by Roberto Calasso · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845903083
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«Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia» is Roberto Calasso's essay on Greek mythology, published by Adelphi in paperback (483 pages, in Italian).
Taking the wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia as its axis, Roberto Calasso builds a wide-ranging journey through Greek mythology in which myth, destiny, and the human condition intertwine. The work rereads classical stories as keys to the Western imagination, beyond simple mythological narration.
It belongs to the Biblioteca Adelphi collection, number 200. This edition is dated 1989.
A work of interest for readers of Greek mythology, literary essay, and classical culture.
Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has been called "a literary institution of one". The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness.
