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Centaurs and Snake-Kings
Hybrids and the Greek Imagination
Buch von Jeremy Mcinerney
Sprache: Englisch

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"Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney's wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity. Hybrids, McInerney reveals, confuse categories and so challenge categorical thinking and underlying certainties. Classical Greek hybrids force us to ask ourselves what separates humans from animals"--
"Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney's wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity. Hybrids, McInerney reveals, confuse categories and so challenge categorical thinking and underlying certainties. Classical Greek hybrids force us to ask ourselves what separates humans from animals"--
Über den Autor
Jeremy McInerney is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Folds of Parnassos (1999), The Cattle of the Sun (2010) and Greece in the Ancient World (2018) and the editor of A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (2014).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Acknowledgements; List of figures; 1. Introduction: encountering the sphinx; 2. 'Welcome to Athens'. Theories of hybridity; 3. Hybrids around the corrupting sea; 4. Hybrids, contact zones and margins; 5. Heads or tails: Gorgons, satyrs and other composites; 6. Centaurs and other horses; 7. Snakes and the perils of autochthony; 8. Hermaphrodites and other bodies; 9. Adynata, ethnography and paradox; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Altertum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781009459105
ISBN-10: 1009459104
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Mcinerney, Jeremy
Hersteller: Cambridge-Hitachi
Maße: 22 x 179 x 250 mm
Von/Mit: Jeremy Mcinerney
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2024
Gewicht: 0,86 kg
Artikel-ID: 128484714
Über den Autor
Jeremy McInerney is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Folds of Parnassos (1999), The Cattle of the Sun (2010) and Greece in the Ancient World (2018) and the editor of A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (2014).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Acknowledgements; List of figures; 1. Introduction: encountering the sphinx; 2. 'Welcome to Athens'. Theories of hybridity; 3. Hybrids around the corrupting sea; 4. Hybrids, contact zones and margins; 5. Heads or tails: Gorgons, satyrs and other composites; 6. Centaurs and other horses; 7. Snakes and the perils of autochthony; 8. Hermaphrodites and other bodies; 9. Adynata, ethnography and paradox; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Altertum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781009459105
ISBN-10: 1009459104
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Mcinerney, Jeremy
Hersteller: Cambridge-Hitachi
Maße: 22 x 179 x 250 mm
Von/Mit: Jeremy Mcinerney
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2024
Gewicht: 0,86 kg
Artikel-ID: 128484714
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