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The Spell of Hypnos - Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature (Paperback)
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The Spell of Hypnos - Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature (Paperback)
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Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft,
honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither
was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, often
by a dream. It could be the site of dramatic intervention by a god
or goddess. It might mark the transition in a narrative
relationship, as when Penelope for the first time in weeks slumbers
happily through Odysseus' vengeful slaughter of her suitors. Silvia
Montiglio's imaginative and comprehensive study of the topic
illuminates the various ways in which writers in antiquity used
sleep to deal with major aspects of plot and character development.
The author shows that sleeplessness, too, carries great weight in
classical literature. Doom hangs by a thread as Agamemnon - in
Iphigenia in Aulis - paces, restless and sleepless, while around
him everyone else dozes on. Exploring recurring tropes of
somnolence and wakefulness in the Iliad, the Odyssey, Athenian
drama, the Argonautica and ancient novels by Xenophon, Chariton,
Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius, this is a unique contribution to
better understandings of ancient Greek writing.
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