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The Cyclops Myth and the Making of Selfhood: -

By Paul Robertson

Book information

Publisher
Gorgias Pr Llc
Year
2022
ISBN
9781463243487, 1463243480
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35531685 bytes)
Pages
285\286
Time added
2023-04-02 18:09:23

Description

This book explores the myth of the Cyclops across western history, and how its changing form from ancient Greece until the modern day reveals fundamental changes in each era’s elite understandings and depictions of cultural values. From Homer’s Odyssey to Hellenistic poetry, from Roman epic to early medieval manuscript glosses, and from early modern opera to current pop culture, the myth of the Cyclops persists in changing forms. This myth’s distinct forms in each historical era reflect and distill wider changes occurring in the spheres of politics, philosophy, aesthetics, and social values, and as a story that persists continually across three millennia it provides a unique lens for cross-historical comparison across western thought.

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