03470oam 22005294a 450 991025139630332120241002201644.01-947447-41-610.21983/P3.0192.1.00(CKB)4100000001587806(OAPEN)1004658(OCoLC)1111353322(MdBmJHUP)muse77034(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32293(oapen)doab32293(EXLCZ)99410000000158780620171201d2017 uy 0engurmu#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCentaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical WorldMartyn Hudson1st edition.Brooklyn, NYpunctum books2018Santa Barbara, CA :Punctum Books,2017.©2017.1 online resource (xviii, 98 pages) illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)Print version: 9781947447400 Includes bibliographical references.Introduction: Centaurs, rioting at Thessaly -- Never never lands -- Looking for centaurs -- Surveying the labyrinth -- Daedalus and his machines -- Ghosts, reading, and repetition -- Conclusion: Centaurs, human and non-human.This book treads new paths through the labyrinths of our human thought. It meanders through the darkness to encounter the monsters at the heart of the maze: Minotaurs, Centaurs, Automata, Makers, Humans. One part of our human thought emerges from classical Ionia and Greek civilisation more generally. We obsessively return to that thought, tread again its pathways, re-enact its stories, repeat its motifs and gestures. We return time and time again to construct and re-construct the beings which were part of its cosmology and mythology – stories enacted from a classical world which is itself at once imaginary and material. The “Never Never Lands” of the ancient world contain fabulous beasts and humans and landscapes of desire and violence. We encounter the rioting Centaurs there and never again cease to conjure them up time and time again through our history. The Centaur mythologies display a fascination with animals and what binds and divides human beings from them. The Centaur hints ultimately at the idea of the genesis of civilisation itself. The Labyrinth, constructed by Daedalus, is itself a prison and a way of thinking about making, designing, and human aspiration. Designed by humans it offers mysteries that would be repeated time and time again – a motif which is replicated through human history. Daedalus himself is an archetype for creation and mastery, the designer of artefacts and machines which would be the beginning of forays into the total domination of nature. Centaurs, Labyrinths, Automata offer clues to the origins and ultimately the futures of humanity and what might come after it.Ancient Greek religion & mythologybicsscclassical literatureancient historymonstersmythologycentaursAncient Greek religion & mythology292.13Hudson Martyn959648MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910251396303321Centaurs, rioting in Thessaly2174812UNINA