Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world
Wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in ancient Greek culture. In this book, Jessica Lightfoot provides the first full-length examination of its significance from Homer to the Hellenistic period. She demonstrates that wonder was an important term of aesthetic response and occupied a centra...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2021.
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| Colección: | Cambridge classical studies.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645333106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
