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Published by the Folio Society, London, 2008.
The book is in excellent condition bound in quarter leather with cloth sides. Slipcase is also in excellent condition, showing a scene from the Trojan War. Illustrations by Graham Baker throughout.
This collection was specially compiled for The Folio Society by Lawrence Norfolk, the award-winning novelist whose books affirm the imaginative power of classical legend in modern literature. He has selected the most iconic stories, drawing on Plutarch, Virgil, Livy and Ovid amongst others, but also lesser known traditions, including some of the more bizarre Roman superstitions, such as Lupercalia in which youths dressed in animal skins and smeared dog blood would whip female onlookers with strips of goatskin to promote fertility.
