1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOBE00020952

Autore

Hichens, Robert

Titolo

Felix : three years in a life by Robert Hichens in two volumes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leipzig : Tauchnitz, 1902

Edizione

[copyright edition]

Descrizione fisica

2 v. ; 17 cm

Collana

Collection of British Authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

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.