by Roberto Calasso · Insel, Frankfurt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458331766
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«Die Hochzeit von Kadmos und Harmonia» is Roberto Calasso's essay on Greek mythology, published in hardback by Insel, Frankfurt (433 pages).
Calasso traverses Greek mythology and reflects on the origins of Western culture: the abduction of Europa by Zeus, the fate of Ariadne, and the wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia, as well as the alphabet that, according to tradition, Cadmus brought to Greece. He combines ancient sources, interpretation, and literary recreation.
German edition published in 1993; translation of the original Italian work «Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia» (1988). The edition belongs to the Insel-Taschenbuch collection (no. 1476).
Aimed at readers interested in Greek mythology and philosophical-literary readings of classical antiquity.
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.
