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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 6.400kg ISBN: 9781108494823ISBN 10: 110849482 Pages: 315 Publication Date: 17 September 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Forms of attention: time and narrative in Ecphrasis; 2. When size matters: erotics, the epyllion, and Colluthus' Rape of Helen; 3. In the beginning; 4. Preposterous poetics and the erotics of death; 5. Strange dogs: Joseph and Aseneth and the dynamics of transformation; 6. Life forms: biography and rabbinical writing coda; Acknowledgements; Bibliography. Index.Reviews'A playful book, brimming with merriment in its stories and curiousities.' Kate Cooper, The Times Literary Supplement Author InformationSimon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. He is one of the best-known writers on Greek literature and cultures, publishing almost twenty books and numerous articles on texts and topics from the whole span of antiquity and its reception, especially in the Victorian era. He has broadcast regularly on television and radio around the world, and has been profiled in newspapers from Brazil to Australia. His books have won three international prizes and been translated into ten languages. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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