Wonder and the marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic world /
"The Greeks are already engaged with the marvellous from the very beginning of their literary tradition. Homer presents a world full of visual marvels linked to the divine, from the Shield of Achilles to epiphanic appearances of the gods themselves before mortals. Already in the Homeric poems,...
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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