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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. 250 - 252
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021
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Subject Index

aesthetic response, 2, 11, 18, 98
aetiology
and thauma, 70–71, 83, 97, 101, 105
agalma, 18, 20–21, 27
Agatharchides of Cnidus, 50, 53
Alcidamas, 29–30
Alexandria, 47, 51, 53, 56
anagnorisis. See recognition
animate/inanimate, 19, 20, 29, 34, 36, 88, 89, 193, 194, 203, 204, 209
Antigonus of Carystus, 42–45, 47–49, 54–57, 81–82, 83–88
and authorial comment in the Collection of Marvellous Investigations, 73
use of source texts, 72–78
Apollonius Paradoxographus, 49, 218
Archelaus the Egyptian/of Chersonesus, 42, 43, 54–57
Aristeas of Proconnesus, 217–218
Aristophanes, 142–158
Aristotle
biological works, 69–70, 72–78, 85
influence on Shklovsky’s conception of defamiliarisation, 10, 141
on language and thauma, 138–142
on learning and wonder, 139–141
on metaphor, 139–141
on myth and thauma, 118
on philosophy and thauma, 1, 69, 118
on pleasure and wonder, 10, 139–141
on the wonder of the natural world, 70, 84
on tragedy and wonder, 117–118, 127–128
Athens, 132, 152, 156, 158, 160
as thauma, 15, 141, 143, 149, 161–166
automata, 202–205, 208–214
autopsy, 47, 61, 129, 147, 163, 164, 222
belief/disbelief, 14, 58, 74, 104, 110, 118, 125–127, 128–132, 147–149
Callimachus, 50
and wonder in the Aitia, 70–71
as paradoxographer, 47–49
Callixeinus of Rhodes, 54
causes, 38, 69, 72, 73, 78, 79, 209
choreia, 13, 91, 98–100, 101
Critias, 26–28, 31
Ctesias of Cnidus, 48, 218
curiosity, 4, 26, 58, 69, 109, 118
dance, 13, 34, 89, 106, 177
deception, 26, 93, 119, 142, 172, 181, 188, 190, 192, 194
defamiliarisation, 9–10, 14, 72, 138–142, 155, 158, 159, 173, 196, 199
Democritus, 207–208
edges of the earth, 12, 59–65, 111, 123, 133, 143–144, 148, 149–152, 155
and thauma in Herodotus, 59–65
ekphrasis, 12, 32–41, 133–134, 203
ekplexis, 3–5, 14, 30, 160, 172, 187
Epicureanism, 205
epigram, 38–41, 43, 54–57
and Ergänzungsspiel, 78
and paradoxography, 56, 57, 78–79
epiphany, 13, 19, 20, 37, 83, 95, 97, 98, 101–106, 108, 112–115, 212–213
epitaphioi logoi, 162–166
eros, 15, 19, 22, 31, 167
eschatiai. See edges of the earth
ethnography, 12, 15, 58–68, 149, 158, 160
Aristophanic para-ethnography, 142, 145–149, 154–158
Euripides, 109–112, 119–137, 150–153
and myth, 111, 122, 123–127, 130
distant settings in, 110, 121–123, 130, 150–153
‘escape-plays’, 110–111, 119–120, 151
recognition scenes in, 110–111, 127, 136
familiar/unfamiliar, 109, 112, 132, 134, 137, 138, 140, 145, 161–162, 167
Formalism, 7, 9, 141
Gellius, 215–227
gods, 2, 13, 20–21, 33, 88–106, 112–115, 124–126, 155, 176, 181, 202, 204–205, 208–210, 211–213
Gorgias, 4, 158
Greenblatt, Stephen, 6–9
Hartog, François, 8
Hegesias of Magnesia, 218
Hephaestus
crafting of wondrous objects, 3, 32, 33, 34, 36, 204–205
Hero of Alexandria, 208–214
Herodotus, 8–9, 12, 58–68, 119, 122, 144–149, 160, 217
escalating sense of wonder in the Histories, 59, 60–61, 62, 64
influence on paradoxography, 58–68
on thauma and the edges of the earth, 59–65
on wonder and wonders in the Histories, 58–68, 102–106
reputation as a liar, 119
Hesiodic Scutum, 35–36
Homer, 31–35, 98–99, 108, 112–117, 163–164, 204–205, 224–225
Homeric Hymn to Apollo, 99–100
Homeric Hymn to Hermes, 82, 88–98, 100–101
Horace, 205–206
imperialism, 14, 15, 120, 142, 158–160, 161, 163, 167, 171
Isigonus of Nicaea, 218
kleos, 33–34, 163
learning, 109, 139–141
libraries, 46, 52, 53
mechanics, 210–214
metaphor, 139–141, 149, 156, 158
mimesis, 15, 37, 118, 132, 139–141, 173, 187–192, 193, 194, 200, 209, 214
mirabilia, 216–222, 224–226
miscellanistic texts, 40, 45, 68, 87, 215, 219, 226
music, 13, 81, 82, 96–98, 102–106, 177
Myrsilus of Methymna, 49
myth, 111, 117, 122, 123–127, 130, 132, 164
near/far, 69, 109, 111, 115–116, 121, 132–133, 142, 143, 161–162, 166–173, 186, 188, 191–192
Neer, Richard, 6, 17, 105
New Historicism, 6–9
nil admirari, 205–208
Nymphodorus, 50
Onesicritus of Astypalaea, 218
Paradoxographus Florentinus, 50
Paradoxographus Palatinus, 50, 85
Paradoxographus Vaticanus, 50
paradoxography, 10, 12, 16, 40, 42–57, 65–79, 81–88, 215–218
and ethnography, 58–68
arrangement and ordering of paradoxographical collections, 45, 46, 47, 60, 65–68, 73
content of paradoxographical collections, 47–51
defamiliarising effects in paradoxographical collections, 72
purpose of paradoxographical collections, 51–52, 77–79
similarities to epigram form, 57, 78–79
titles of paradoxographical collections, 46–47
verse paradoxography, 56
Peripatetics, 12, 40, 43, 49, 85, 200
influence of Peripatetic writing on paradoxography, 68–78
perspective, 133, 173, 175, 187–192
Philitas of Cos, 85–88
Philo of Byzantium, 210, 213
philosophy
thauma as the beginning of, 1, 26, 69–70, 78, 109, 118, 198
Philostephanus of Cyrene, 50, 218
Phlegon of Tralleis, 50
Pindar, 1, 125–127, 168, 199
pity, 108, 109, 112, 115, 117
Plato, 18–31, 174, 182–184, 192–198, 200–205
Cave Allegory, 15, 174, 192–198, 201, 203, 205
on philosophy and thauma, 1, 26, 109, 174
on thauma and perspective, 133, 187–192
on the dangers of thauma, 12, 26, 30–31, 109, 174, 178, 180, 192–198, 205
pleasure, 10, 29, 78, 139, 178–180, 192, 195
Pliny the Elder, 220–222
Polemon of Ilium, 50
Posidippus of Pella, 38–41, 78
Ps. Aristotle, On Marvellous Things Heard, 49, 66–67
Ptolemies
collection of natural thaumata, 53–54
court of, 55
puppets, 177, 192, 201–204
Pythagoras, 207
realism, 3, 34–35, 37, 214
recognition, 14, 69, 97, 108–111, 115–119, 127–132, 133, 136, 140, 205
refamiliarisation, 10, 159, 173, 196
rhetoric, 15, 138–142, 157–158, 167, 172–173
Rome, 180, 207, 215–227
semata, 13, 93–98
Shield of Achilles, 3, 33–35, 36, 163, 223
Shklovsky, Viktor, 9–10, 141
Sicily, 161
Athenian expedition against, 15, 120, 158–162, 166–173
silence, 4, 29, 81
skiagraphia, 188–189
song, 92–93, 106
sophists, 4, 182–184, 189–192
Sophocles, 90–91, 122, 127, 144, 213
spectacle, 12, 91, 154, 168, 170, 177, 178, 180, 181, 186, 193, 195, 201, 206, 209
stasis, 3–5, 192, 197, 201
statues, 18, 20, 21, 26, 193
Stoicism, 205–208
symposium, 89, 92, 176, 181–187
textuality, 12, 16, 18, 28–30, 36–41, 45, 53, 57, 68, 79, 87, 215, 222–227
thauma idesthai, 3, 32, 33, 35, 204
thaumatopoiia, 16, 175–187, 191–198, 201, 203, 209
thaumatourgia, 16, 175–187, 209
theatre, 127, 132, 177–180, 206, 213–214
Theocritus, 36–38
Theophrastus of Eresus, 38, 85
Thucydides, 158–173
utopia, 13, 142, 153
vision, 3, 11, 12, 31–33, 58, 103, 113, 189, 195–196, 200
visual artworks, 17, 19, 29, 32–40, 194
Wunderkammer, 16
Xenophon, 181–187

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  • Online publication: 19 July 2021
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