Description: The myth of Orpheus, shaman and teacher, musician and lover, is the subject of this book. It brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to present a conspectus of the myth's career, to show how it grows and changes to meet changing demands -- always different, yet always the same.
Brief description: JOHN WARDEN is a member of the department of Classics at the University of Toronto. He is author of Fallax opus: Poet and Reader in the Elegies of Propertius.