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Centaurs and snake-kings : hybrids and the Greek imagination / Jeremy McInerney.
Van Pelt Library BL795.A54 M35 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McInerney, Jeremy, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology, Greek.
- Animals, Mythical.
- Monsters--Mythology--Greece.
- Monsters.
- legendary beings.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : 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:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McInerney, Jeremy, 1958- Centaurs and snake-kings
- ISBN:
- 9781009459105
- 1009459104
- 9781009459075
- 1009459074
- OCLC:
- 1417393825
- Publisher Number:
- 90100959561
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