LEADER 03470oam 22005294a 450 001 9910251396303321 005 20241002201644.0 010 $a1-947447-41-6 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0192.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000001587806 035 $a(OAPEN)1004658 035 $a(OCoLC)1111353322 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77034 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32293 035 $a(oapen)doab32293 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001587806 100 $a20171201d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCentaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World$fMartyn Hudson 205 $a1st edition. 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2018 210 1$aSanta Barbara, CA :$cPunctum Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 98 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9781947447400 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aAncient Greek religion & mythology$2bicssc 610 $aclassical literature 610 $aancient history 610 $amonsters 610 $amythology 610 $acentaurs 615 7$aAncient Greek religion & mythology 676 $a292.13 700 $aHudson$b Martyn$0959648 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910251396303321 996 $aCentaurs, rioting in Thessaly$92174812 997 $aUNINA