On the Deities of Samothrace by F. W. J. Schelling, Alexander... - 9780253071101

Indiana University Press

On the Deities of SamothraceAuthor(s): F. W. J. Schelling, Alexander Bilda, Jason M. Wirth, David Farrell Krell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253071101, 978-0253071101\nSynopsis\nIn 1815, F. W. J. Schelling presented a lecture titled \""On the Deities of Samothrace\"" to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. The lecture offered a startlingly original reading of the ancient Greek mystery religion on the island of Samothrace. It would be the last book Schelling himself published, and it is the key to his influential Philosophy of Mythology. \n Now, for the first time in English, this critical edition contains the entirety of Schelling's original text, including the lecture itself, Schelling's afterword, and all his extensive philosophical and philological endnotes. It also offers copious explanatory notes, photographs and maps of the site, and three interpretive essays by the editors and translators eluc.