Centaurs and snake-kings: hybrids and the Greek imagination
"Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney's wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity. Hybrids, McInerney reveals, confuse categories and so challenge categorical thinking and underlying certainties. Classical Greek hybrids...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Cambridge New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Further subjects: | B
Mythology, Greek
B Animals, Mythical B Monsters (Greece) Mythology |
| Summary: | "Combining scholarship with readability, Jeremy McInerney's wide-ranging, stimulating new book uncovers the complexity and potency of ancient hybridity. Hybrids, McInerney reveals, confuse categories and so challenge categorical thinking and underlying certainties. Classical Greek hybrids force us to ask ourselves what separates humans from animals"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 354 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 1009459104 |