The Oxford handbook of monsters in classical myth / edited by Debbie Felton.

Other author Felton, Debbie.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Descriptionxxx, 602 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Classical Studies
Subjects
Mythology, Classical.
Monsters--Mythology.
Mythology, Greek.
Mythologie ancienne.
Monstres--Mythologie.
Mythologie grecque.

Variant title Monsters in classical myth
Series[Oxford handbooks]
Oxford handbooks. ^A611862
Contents Monster theory and classical myth / Debbie Felton -- Monsters in creation narratives of ancient Greece and Rome / Fiona Mitchell -- Monsters in ancient Near Eastern myth and religion / Madadh Richey -- Spawned from the Nile : Egyptian monsters in Graeco-Roman culture / Leanna Boychenko -- Typhoeus, agent of disorder / William Brockliss -- The giants : children of Gaea / Christina A. Salowey -- Dragons / Daniel Ogden -- The "monster-harbouring sea" : sea monsters and sea serpents in ancient myth / Dominic Ingemark and Camilla Asplund Ingemark -- Art horror : Medusa and her sister gorgons / Dunstan Lowe -- The chimaera / R. Scott Smith -- Cerberus, hound of Hades / Derrek Joyce -- Down the sinkhole : the Lernaean hydra / Susan Deacy -- Cyclopes / Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton -- Scylla and Charybdis / Marianne Govers Hopman -- Sirens and harpies : the enchanting and repulsive avian monsters of classical antiquity / Ryan Denson -- The sphinx / Carolina López-Ruiz -- The minotaur / Stephen M. Trzaskoma -- Human-animal hybrids / Emma Aston -- Monstrous metamorphoses : Ovid and the art of making and unmaking monsters / Genevieve Liveley -- Ancient Bodeys : Lamia, Mormo, Empousa, Gello, and others / Janek Kucharski -- Ghosts : the restless and unplasant dead / Julia Doroszewska -- The monstrous animals and animal monsters of Ancient Greece / Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr -- Reading monstrous peoples in ancient Greece and Rome / John B. Friedman -- Monumental monsters / Simon Oswald -- Cryptids in Greek art / Andrea Murace -- Image and monster in ancient Greek art / Lorenz Winkler-Horaček -- Rationalizing mythic monsters in antiquity / Greta Hawes -- Beyond "othering" : classical monstrosity and feminism in the twenty-first century / Vanda Zajko -- Gods and monsters : cognitive approaches to the monstrous / Jennifer Larson -- Monsters of the inner world : psychoanalytic approaches / Eirini Apanomeritaki -- Monsters and disability / the violence of interpreting bodies in Aristotle and Homer / Hanna Silverblank and Marchella Ward -- Pearls from a dark cloud : monsters in Persian myth / Peter Adrian Behravesh -- Plinian monsters in Old Norse encyclopaedic literature / Arngrímur Vídalín -- Classical monsters in medieval literature and art / Antonella Sciancalepore -- The revival of classical monsters in the Italian renaissance / Luba Freedman -- Classical monsters in Latin American cultures / Persephone Braham -- Recasting monsters in postcolonial art and literature / Justine McConnell -- Classical monsters in children's and young adult literature / Katarzyna Marciniak -- Ancient monsters in modern speculative fiction / Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Jesse Weiner, and Brett M. Rogers -- Classical monsters in modern popular culture : a case study in fan fiction / Liz Gloyn -- Ancient monsters in modern science / Debbie Felton.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023942612
ISBN9780192896506 hardcover
ISBN0192896504 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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