Scylla : myth, metaphor, paradox /
"What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the dominant view that a mythical symbol denotes a single, clear-cut 'figure' and proposes instead to conceptualize the name 'Scylla' as a combination of three concepts - sea,...
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Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Figures; Preface and acknowledgments; Note on transliterations and translations; Abbreviations; Introduction; A semiotic approach to mythical names; Scylla in fiction and cultural reflections; Myths and metaphors; Outline; Part I Scylla in the Odyssey; Chapter 1 The impregnable monster; Crossing Jason's path; A parodic duel; A failed hesiodic combat; Scylla and the Cyclops; Chapter 2 A poetic hazard; The silence of Odysseus; Forgetting the nostos; Competing traditions; Chapter 3 The gullet of the sea; Eating up sailors; The voracious sea; Body and space.
- Chapter 4 Puzzles and riddlesScylla the riddle; From riddle to aporia; Sailing the boundless sea; Enigmatic females; Part II Scylla in classical Greece; Chapter 5 A feminine composite; Texts and images; How to make a monster; Semantic units; Chapter 6 Scylla as femme fatale; Sexual anxieties; Metaphorical pivots; Visual catachreses; Chapter 7 The untamed maiden; Parthenic Scyllae; Homologies and metaphors; Scylla and Thetis; Part III Scylla in Hellenistic Greece and Rome; Chapter 8 Rationalizing the monster; The monster as mythodes; Three kinds of rationalization; Exegetes and poets.
- Chapter 9 Organizing the traditionGathering a corpus; Mythical biography; Homonyms; The semantics of conflation; Chapter 10 Roman versions of a Greek myth; Exemplary Scyllae; Aesthetics of contrast; Chapter 11 Psychology and re-semanticization in Ovid's Metamorphoses; From combat tale to maiden story; Metamorphosis as contagion; Ambiguous maidens; Epilogue; From concept to figure; The plasticity of mythical names; Mythical homonyms; Conceptualizing monsters, heroes, and gods; Bibliography; Index of passages discussed; Index of Greek and Latin words; Index of objects discussed; General index.
