1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910687906703321

Autore

Lightfoot Jessica <1991->

Titolo

Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world / / Jessica Lightfoot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Cambridge University Press, , [2021]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Cambridge Classical Studies

Disciplina

880.9/38

Soggetti

Greek literature - History and criticism

Marvelous, The, in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00248727

Titolo

Asymptotic, Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems : In Honor of Nalini Joshi On Her 60. Birthday, TSIMF, Sanya, China, April 9–13, 2018 / Frank Nijhoff, Yang Shi, Da-jun Zhang editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer, 2020

Titolo uniforme

Asymptotic, Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems

Descrizione fisica

viii, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

00B25 - Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest [MSC 2020]

37-XX - Dynamical systems and ergodic theory [MSC 2020]

37Jxx - Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems [MSC 2020]

37Kxx - Dynamical system aspects of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia