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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"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, the marvellous is linked to transgression of the boundaries that separate the human and divine realms, and also the natural and the artificial"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Greek literature History and criticism.
Marvelous, The, in literature.
Homer Criticism and interpretation.
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