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The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature (Library of Classical Studies) - Hardcover
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'This enthralling and thoroughly enjoyable book helps us to understand how different literary genres deal with the seemingly unremarkable and inactive - but actually deeply nuanced and intriguing - things that happen while the ancients either sleep or wrestle with wakefulness. Silvia Montiglio has written a masterpiece of literary analysis which at the same time discloses a fascinating chapter in the history of Greek culture.' - Marco Fantuzzi, Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, University of Macerata and Visiting Professor of Greek, Columbia University, author of Achilles in Love: Intertextual Studies; 'The sleepscapes revealed here are fascinating for the windows they open onto such fruitful topics as emotion and agency, isolation and belonging, or divine and poetic justice. It is rare to find a study that deals so expertly with such a diverse span of genres, and rare again to find one that does so through such an absorbing topic. This is an important, enjoyable, and illuminating book.' - Alex Purves, Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, UCLA, author of Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative; This is a subtle, wide-ranging, and illuminating study, from which any student of Greek literature stands to learn a great deal.' - Sheila Murnaghan, Allen Memorial Professor of Greek, University of Pennsylvania
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Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, often by a dream. It could be the site of dramatic intervention by a god or goddess. It might mark the transition in a narrative relationship, as when Penelope for the first time in weeks slumbers happily through Odysseus' vengeful slaughter of her suitors. Silvia Montiglio's imaginative and comprehensive study of the topic illuminates the various ways writers in antiquity used sleep to deal with major aspects of plot and character development. The author shows that sleeplessness, too, carries great weight in classical literature. Doom hangs by a thread as Agamemnon - in Iphigenia in Aulis - paces, restless and sleepless, while around him everyone else dozes on. Exploring recurring tropes of somnolence and wakefulness in the Iliad, the Odyssey, Athenian drama, the Argonautica and ancient novels by Xenophon, Chariton, Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius, this is a unique contribution to better understandings of ancient Greek writing.
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- VerlagI.B. Tauris
- Erscheinungsdatum2015
- ISBN 10 1784533513
- ISBN 13 9781784533519
- EinbandTapa dura
- Anzahl der Seiten336
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