Centaurs and snake-kings : hybrids and the Greek imagination / Jeremy McInerney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McInerney, Jeremy, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Greek.

Animals, Mythical.

Monsters--Mythology--Greece.

Monsters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 354 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Hybrids and the Greek imagination

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney's wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity. Hybrids, McInerney reveals, confuse categories and so challenge categorical thinking and underlying certainties. Classical Greek hybrids force us to ask ourselves what separates humans from animals"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction : encountering the Sphinx

"Welcome to Athens". Theories of hybridity

Hybrids around the corrupting sea

Hybrids, contact zones and margins

Heads or tails : Gorgons, Satyrs and other composites Centaurs and other horses

Snakes and the perils of autochthony

Hermaphrodites and other bodies

Adynata, ethnography and paradox

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009459099

1009459090

9781009459051

1009459058

9781009459068

1009459066