Centaurs and snake-kings : hybrids and the Greek imagination / Jeremy McInerney.
| Author/creator | McInerney, Jeremy, 1958- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : encountering the Sphinx -- "Welcome to Athens". Theories of hybridity -- Hybrids around the corrupting sea -- Hybrids, contact zones and margins -- Heads or tails : Gorgons, Satyrs and other composites Centaurs and other horses -- Snakes and the perils of autochthony -- Hermaphrodites and other bodies -- Adynata, ethnography and paradox. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: McInerney, Jeremy, 1958- Centaurs and snake-kings Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024 9781009459068 |
| LCCN | 2023046691 |
| ISBN | 9781009459105 |
| ISBN | 1009459104 |
| ISBN | 9781009459075 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1009459074 |
| ISBN | (epub) |
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