Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world / / Jessica Lightfoot
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| Autore: |
Lightfoot Jessica <1991->
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| Titolo: |
Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world / / Jessica Lightfoot
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Cambridge University Press, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 880.9/38 |
| Soggetto topico: | Greek literature - History and criticism |
| Marvelous, The, in literature | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910687906703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Cambridge classical studies.