The Cyclops Myth and the Making of Selfhood / / Paul Robertson.
This book explores the myth of the Cyclops across western history, and how its changing form from ancient Greece until the modern day reveals fundamental changes in each era’s elite understandings and depictions of cultural values. From Homer’s Odyssey to Hellenistic poetry, from Roman epic to early...
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Robertson, Paul, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Cyclops Myth and the Making of Selfhood / Paul Robertson. Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (285 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought ; 19 Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Selfhood and the Cyclops Myth -- Chapter One. The Archaic Period: Homer and Hesiod -- Chapter Two. The Classical Era: Euripides’ Cyclops -- Chapter Three. The Hellenistic Age: Theocritus -- Chapter Four. The Roman Empire: Virgil and Ovid -- Chapter Five. The Post-Classical World and the Middle Ages -- Chapter Six. Modernity: Graphic Novels, Comics, Film, Young Adult Novels -- Art History Excursus 2: The Post-Medieval Cyclops, a Selective Summary -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indices restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book explores the myth of the Cyclops across western history, and how its changing form from ancient Greece until the modern day reveals fundamental changes in each era’s elite understandings and depictions of cultural values. From Homer’s Odyssey to Hellenistic poetry, from Roman epic to early medieval manuscript glosses, and from early modern opera to current pop culture, the myth of the Cyclops persists in changing forms. This myth’s distinct forms in each historical era reflect and distill wider changes occurring in the spheres of politics, philosophy, aesthetics, and social values, and as a story that persists continually across three millennia it provides a unique lens for cross-historical comparison across western thought. The story of the Cyclops myth across western history is particularly reflective of changing selfhood, namely the ways that at least certain authors in each historical-cultural period understand how identity is constructed. This study particularly responds to the work of the philosopher and classicist Christopher Gill, who has influentially argued for a clear binary in notions of selfhood between the ancient and modern worlds. I build on Gill and others, but also depart from them, arguing that a comparative analysis of the Cyclops myth illustrates not a binary but rather a series of incremental, clearly defined, but non-linear shifts in selfhood from the ancient to the modern world. In doing so, my project also provides a comprehensive story of the re-tellings of the Cyclops myth over time, showing how these re-tellings not only reflect changing cultural values and understandings, but also distill and even influence them. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Cyclopes (Greek mythology) in literature. Self in literature. Ancient and Classical. Literary Criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2 9783110767001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2022 English 9783110992915 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2022 9783110992878 ZDB-23-DGD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110767100 https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463243494 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463243494 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463243494/original |
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Selfhood and the Cyclops Myth -- Chapter One. The Archaic Period: Homer and Hesiod -- Chapter Two. The Classical Era: Euripides’ Cyclops -- Chapter Three. The Hellenistic Age: Theocritus -- Chapter Four. The Roman Empire: Virgil and Ovid -- Chapter Five. The Post-Classical World and the Middle Ages -- Chapter Six. Modernity: Graphic Novels, Comics, Film, Young Adult Novels -- Art History Excursus 2: The Post-Medieval Cyclops, a Selective Summary -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indices |
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction. Selfhood and the Cyclops Myth -- Chapter One. The Archaic Period: Homer and Hesiod -- Chapter Two. The Classical Era: Euripides’ Cyclops -- Chapter Three. The Hellenistic Age: Theocritus -- Chapter Four. The Roman Empire: Virgil and Ovid -- Chapter Five. The Post-Classical World and the Middle Ages -- Chapter Six. Modernity: Graphic Novels, Comics, Film, Young Adult Novels -- Art History Excursus 2: The Post-Medieval Cyclops, a Selective Summary -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Indices |
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