Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
Author:   Jessica Lightfoot (University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9781009009140


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   16 September 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World


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Author:   Jessica Lightfoot (University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9781009009140


ISBN 10:   1009009141
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   16 September 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Beginning with Thauma; 2. The Art of Thauma: Nature, Artifice and the Marvellous; 3. Reading Thauma: Paradoxography and the Textual Collection of Marvels; 4. The Sound of Thauma: Music and the Marvellous; 5. The Experience of Thauma: Cognition, Recognition, Wonder and Disbelief; 6. Near and Distant Marvels: Defamiliarising and Refamiliarising Thauma; 7. Making Marvels: Thaumatopoiia and Thaumatourgia; 8. Epilogue: Thaumata Polla.

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Jessica Lightfoot is a Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge and Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Birmingham.

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