Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world / / Jessica Lightfoot.
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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| Superior document: | Cambridge classical studies |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge classical studies.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jul 2021). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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