Forms of Astonishment

NOTE EDITORE

Forms of Astonishment sets out to interpret a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Such tales have become familiar in their Ovidian dress, as in the best-selling translation by Ted Hughes; Richard Buxton explores their Greek antecedents. One pressing question which often occurs to the reader of these tales is: Did the Greeks take them seriously? Buxton repeatedly engages with this topic, and attempts to answer it context by context and author by author. His book raises issues relevant to an understanding of broad aspects of Greek culture (e.g. how 'strange' were Greek beliefs?'); in so doing, it also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.

SOMMARIO

1 - The Odyssey2 - Athenian drama3 - Visual arts4 - Hellenistic transformations5 - Post-Hellenistic narratives6 - Shapes of the gods7 - The human aetiology of landscape8 - Plants, trees, and human form9 - Challenges to the metamorphic tradition10 - Final thoughts on contexts

AUTORE

Richard Buxton is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199245499
• Dimensioni: 222 x 19.0 x 144 mm Ø 541 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 49 in-text illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 304