Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world / / Jessica Lightfoot.

"The Greeks are already engaged with the marvellous from the very beginning of their literary tradition. Homer presents a world full of visual marvels linked to the divine, from the Shield of Achilles to epiphanic appearances of the gods themselves before mortals. Already in the Homeric poems,...

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Superior document:Cambridge Classical Studies
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Cambridge University Press,, [2021]
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Cambridge classical studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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