Jessica Lightfoot

Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows that wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in Greek culture from Homer to the Hellenistic period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9781316518830
• ISBN-10: 1316518833
• Artikelnr.: 61262519

Autorenporträt

Jessica Lightfoot is a Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge and Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Beginning with Thauma
2. The Art of Thauma: Nature, Artifice and the Marvellous
3. Reading Thauma: Paradoxography and the Textual Collection of Marvels
4. The Sound of Thauma: Music and the Marvellous
5. The Experience of Thauma: Cognition, Recognition, Wonder and Disbelief
6. Near and Distant Marvels: Defamiliarising and Refamiliarising Thauma
7. Making Marvels: Thaumatopoiia and Thaumatourgia
8. Epilogue: Thaumata Polla.