The Cyclops Myth and the Making of Selfhood /

The Cyclops Myth and the Making of Selfhood / / Paul Robertson.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
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Robertson, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought ; 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (285 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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