{"product_id":"centaurs-and-snake-kings-hybrids-and-the-greek-imagination-hardback-9781009459105","title":"Centaurs and Snake-Kings; Hybrids and the Greek Imagination (Hardback) 9781009459105","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCentaurs and Snake-Kings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHybrids and the Greek Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy does the Greek imagination teem with centaurs and gorgons? This stimulating book engagingly reveals the power of ancient hybridity.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeremy McInerney (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009459105, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 75 colour illus.\u003cbr\u003e25 x 17.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.86 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A brilliant study, which left this reader both deeply informed and pleasurably disorientated.' Emma Greensmith, Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGriffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from the entanglement of humans and animals. Overlaying such enmeshment is the rich cultural exchange experienced by Greeks across the Mediterranean. Hybrids, the author reveals, capture the anxiety of cross-cultural encounter, where similarity and incongruity were conjoined. Hybridity likewise expresses instability of identity. The ancient sea, that most changeable ancient domain, was viewed as home to monsters like Skylla; while on land the centaur might be hypersexual yet also hypercivilized, like Cheiron. Medusa may be destructive, yet also alluring. Wherever conventional values or behaviours are challenged, there the hybrid gives that threat a face. This absorbing work unveils a mercurial world of shifting categories that offer an alternative to conventional certainties. Transforming disorder into images of wonder, Greek hybrids – McInerney suggests – finally suggest other ways of being human.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: encountering the sphinx\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Welcome to Athens'. Theories of hybridity\u003cbr\u003e 3. Hybrids around the corrupting sea\u003cbr\u003e 4. Hybrids, contact zones and margins\u003cbr\u003e 5. Heads or tails: Gorgons, satyrs and other composites\u003cbr\u003e 6. Centaurs and other horses\u003cbr\u003e 7. Snakes and the perils of autochthony\u003cbr\u003e 8. Hermaphrodites and other bodies\u003cbr\u003e 9. Adynata, ethnography and paradox\u003cbr\u003e 10. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ancient history: to c 500 CE\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ancient%20history:%20to%20c%20500%20CE%20%5BHBLA%5D%22\"\u003eHBLA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52462966604056,"sku":"9781009459105","price":25.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009459105i.jpg?v=1785543692","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/centaurs-and-snake-kings-hybrids-and-the-greek-imagination-hardback-9781009459105","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}