Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world /
"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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Cambridge classical studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009003551 1009003550 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009003551 |