Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World

ISBN-13: 9781316518830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Jessica Lightfoot

Opis

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

Spis treści

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.