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  3. Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781009003551
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009003551
Creative Commons:
Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC Creative Common License - ND
This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses
Subjects:
Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
Series:
Cambridge Classical Studies
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Book description

Wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in ancient Greek culture. In this book, Jessica Lightfoot provides the first full-length examination of its significance from Homer to the Hellenistic period. She demonstrates that wonder was an important term of aesthetic response and occupied a central position in concepts of what philosophy and literature are and do. She also argues that it became a means of expressing the manner in which the realms of the human and the divine interrelate with one another; and that it was central to the articulation of the ways in which the relationships between self and other, near and far, and familiar and unfamiliar were conceived. The book provides a much-needed starting point for re-assessments of the impact of wonder as a literary critical and cultural concept both in antiquity and in later periods. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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  • Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World
    pp i-i
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  • Cambridge Classical Studies - Series page
    pp ii-ii
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  • Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World - Title page
    pp iii-iii
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  • Copyright page
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  • Contents
    pp v-vi
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  • Acknowledgements
    pp vii-viii
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  • Abbreviations
    pp ix-x
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  • 1 - Beginning with Thauma
    pp 1-16
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  • 2 - The Art of Thauma: Nature, Artifice and the Marvellous
    pp 17-41
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  • 3 - Reading Thauma: Paradoxography and the Textual Collection of Marvels
    pp 42-79
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  • 4 - The Sound of Thauma: Music and the Marvellous
    pp 80-106
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  • 5 - The Experience of Thauma: Cognition, Recognition, Wonder and Disbelief
    pp 107-137
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  • 6 - Near and Distant Marvels: Defamiliarising and Refamiliarising Thauma
    pp 138-173
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  • 7 - Making Marvels: Thaumatopoiia and Thaumatourgia
    pp 174-198
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  • 8 - Epilogue: Thaumata Polla
    pp 199-227
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  • Bibliography
    pp 228-249
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  • Subject Index
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  • Index LOCORUM
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