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Monsters in Greek Literature - Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology (Paperback)
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Monsters in Greek Literature - Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures
which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book
shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and
are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to
explore the limits of the human body and of the human world. This
book provides an in-depth examination of the role of monstrosity in
ancient Greek literature. In the past, monsters in this context
have largely been treated as unimportant or analysed on an
individual basis. By focusing on genres rather than single
creatures, the book provides a greater understanding of how
monstrosity and abnormal bodies are used in ancient sources. Very
often ideas about monstrosity are used as a contrast against which
to examine the nature of what it is to be human, both physically
and behaviourally. This book focuses on creation narratives,
ethnographic writing, and biological texts. These three genres
address the origins of the human world, its spatial limits, and the
nature of the human body; by examining monstrosity in these genres
we can see the ways in which Greek texts construct the space and
time in which people exist and the nature of our bodies. This book
is aimed primarily at scholars and students undertaking research,
not only those with an interest in monstrosity, but also scholars
exploring cultural representations of time (especially the
primordial and mythological past), ancient geography and
ethnography, and ancient philosophy and science. As the
representation of monsters in antiquity was strongly influential on
medieval, renaissance, and early modern images and texts, this book
will also be relevant to people researching these areas.
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