The goal of Boccaccio\'s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology.
It contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient Pagan poetry in a Christian world..
This is volume 1 of a three-volume set of Boccaccio\'s complete 15-book work.
The goal of Boccaccio\'s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology