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Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world / Jessica Lightfoot.
LIBRA PA3015.M37 L54 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lightfoot, Jessica, 1991- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek literature--History and criticism.
- Greek literature.
- Marvelous, The, in literature.
- Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
- Homer.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 260 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "The Greeks are already engaged with the marvellous from the very beginning of their literary tradition. Homer presents a world full of visual marvels linked to the divine, from the Shield of Achilles to epiphanic appearances of the gods themselves before mortals. Already in the Homeric poems, the marvellous is linked to transgression of the boundaries that separate the human and divine realms, and also the natural and the artificial"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-249) and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lightfoot, Jessica, Wonder and the marvellous from homer to the hellenistic world
- ISBN:
- 9781316518830
- 1316518833
- 1009009141
- 9781009009140
- OCLC:
- 1237630725
- Publisher Number:
- 17256190
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