Forms of Astonishment - Greek Myths of Metamorphosis

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1. Narratives and Their Contexts


• 1: The Odyssey


• 2: Athenian Drama


• 3: Visual Arts


• 4: Hellenistic Transformations


• 5: Post-Hellenistic Narratives


• 2. The Logic of Transformation


• 6: Shapes of the Gods


• 7: The Human Aetiology of Landscape


• 8: Plants, Trees, and Human Form


• 9: Challenges to the Metamorphic Tradition


• 10: Final Thoughts on Contexts


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Richard Buxton is Emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol.

Summary

An illustrated study of a number of Greek myths about the transformations of humans and gods. Richard Buxton poses the question of how seriously the Greeks took these tales, and in doing so also illuminates issues explored by anthropologists and students of religion.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Buxton, Richard (Emeritus Professor of Greek Langu Buxton, Buxton Richard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2017
• EAN: 9780198706991
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870699-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Cultural Studies, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient religions and Mythologies