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Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings

H. David Brumble

London • Chicago

Copyright © 1998 by H. David Brumble All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. For information, write to: FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS I I Rathbone Place London WIP IDE England or FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS

70 Ea,t Walton Street Chicago. Illinois 60611 U.S.A. Library of Congress and British Library CIP is available. ISBN 1-57958-020-1 First published in the U.K. and U.S.A .. 1998 Printed in the United States of America

Copyright Acknowledgments The author and publisher are grateful to the following for permission to quote excerpts from: The Saturnalia by Macrobius, tr. Percival V. Davies, copyright © 1960 by Columbia University Press, New York. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. Commentary mz the Dream tfreyChaucer. Second Edition by John H. Fisher, copyright© 1989 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., reprinted by permission of the publisher. G. Blakemore Evans (Editor), The Riverside Shakespeare. Copyright © 1974 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Excerpted with permission. Erasmus, The Enclziridion, tr. Raymond Himelick. Bloomington: Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Indiana University Press, 1963.

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