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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2021

Jessica Lightfoot
Jessica Lightfoot
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University of Birmingham

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Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021
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  1. Acknowledgements

  2. List of Abbreviations

  3. 1Beginning with Thauma

  4. 2The Art of Thauma: Nature, Artifice and the Marvellous

    1. 2.1Wondrous Visions: Charmides as Agalma

    2. 2.2Plato’s Marvellous Young Men: Theaetetus and Charmides as Thaumata

    3. 2.3Critias the Poet, Charmides the Actor

    4. 2.4Thauma Idesthai: Wonder, Divine Artworks and the Ekphrastic Tradition

  5. 3Reading Thauma: Paradoxography and the Textual Collection of Marvels

    1. 3.1Collecting Thaumata: The Emergence of the Paradoxographical Collection

    2. 3.2Taming Zoological Thaumata: Archelaus the Egyptian’s Peculiar Forms and the Ptolemaic Court

    3. 3.3Thaumata and the Ethnographic Tradition: Herodotus and the Edges of the Earth

    4. 3.4Reactivating Thauma: Paradoxography and the Aristotelian Tradition

    5. 3.5Textual Thaumata: Paradoxography and the Poetics of Hellenistic Literature

  6. 4The Sound of Thauma: Music and the Marvellous

    1. 4.1Homer the Proto-Paradoxographer: Poetry, Music and Science in Antigonus’ Collection of Marvellous Investigations

    2. 4.2Giving Voice to the Dead: Thauma and the Lyre in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes

    3. 4.3Hermes’ Signs and Songs: Thaumata and Semata

    4. 4.4Collapsing Boundaries: Epiphanic Thauma, Choreia and Song

  7. 5The Experience of Thauma: Cognition, Recognition, Wonder and Disbelief

    1. 5.1Recognition, Realisation and Thauma: The Meeting of Priam and Achilles

    2. 5.2Marvels at the Margins: Geographical and Mythic Innovation in Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians

    3. 5.3Wonders beyond Mythoi: Recognition and Thauma in Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians

    4. 5.4Marvels at the Centre: Delphi, Athens and Thauma in Euripides’ Ion

  8. 6Near and Distant Marvels: Defamiliarising and Refamiliarising Thauma

    1. 6.1The Wonder of Nephelococcygia: Aristophanes’ Birds and the Edges of the Earth

    2. 6.2Familiar Thaumata: The Bird-Chorus’ Wondrous Travels

    3. 6.3The Wonder of Athens: Thucydides and Thauma

  9. 7Making Marvels: Thaumatopoiia and Thaumatourgia

    1. 7.1The Meaning of Marvel-Making: Theatrical Thaumatopoiia

    2. 7.2Sympotic Thaumatopoiia: Wonder-Working in Xenophon’s Symposium

    3. 7.3Thaumatopoiia and Perspective in Plato’s Republic and Sophist

    4. 7.4Socratic Marvel-Making: Thaumatopoiia in the Cave

  10. 8Epilogue: Thaumata Polla

    1. 8.1Thauma as the Beginning of Philosophy – or Nil Admirari?

    2. 8.2Mediating between Gods and Men, Nature and Artifice: Automata and Thauma in Hero of Alexandria’s Mechanical Treatises

    3. 8.3Mera Miracula: Thauma, Textuality and the Marvels of Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae

  11. Bibliography

  12. Subject Index

  13. Index Locorum

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