Centaurs And Snake-Kings: Hybrids The Greek Imagination Jeremy Mcinerney Cambridge University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Architecture

Griffins Centaurs And Gorgons: The Greek Imagination Teems With Wondrous Yet Often Monstrous Hybrids Jeremy Mcinerney Discusses How These Composite Creatures Arise From Entanglement Of Humans Animals Overlaying Such Enmeshment Is Rich Cultural Exchange Experienced By Greeks Across Mediterranean Author Reveals Capture Anxiety Cross-Cultural Encounter Where Similarity Incongruity Were Conjoined Hybridity Likewise Expresses Instability Identity Ancient Sea That Most Changeable Domain Was Viewed As Home To Monsters Like Skylla While On Land Centaur Might Be Hypersexual Also Hypercivilized Cheiron Medusa May Destructive Alluring Wherever Conventional Values Or Behaviours Are Challenged There Hybrid Gives Threat A Face This Absorbing Work Unveils Mercurial World Shifting Categories Offer An Alternative Certainties Transforming Disorder Into Images Wonder – Suggests Finally Suggest Other Ways Being Human Σελίδες: 368 Διαστάσεις: 17 9X17 9Cm