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The Land of the Solstices: Myth, geography and astronomy in ancient Greece

Following the recent upsurge of interest in ancient geography and astronomy, together with the ever-present fascination with myth, this book offers a fresh study of what is commonly but erroneously known as ‘solar myth’. This subject- matter is at present at the margins of scholarly interest, mainly due to the now outdated comprehensive theories of myth that used solar phenomena as an interpretative key by which they proposed to explain the greatest number of traditional narratives conveniently called myths. In comparison with these dated approaches, this book offers a more rigorous methodology and more selective interpretation applicable to a group of particular myths, those referencing solar phenomena. The class of ‘solar’ myths discussed in this book is thus formed out of traditional narratives that either explicitly include references to solar movement or the recognition of such references does not require strained interpretations.

ancient myth, ancient geography, ancient astronomy, solstices, annual and diurnal solar movement, Odyssey, Pytheas

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