Spell of Hypnos

Name: Spell of Hypnos
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature

Autor: Silvia Montiglio

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Wydawca: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as th...

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Autor

Silvia Montiglio

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2015

strony

336

EAN

9781784533519

ISBN

1784533513

Enbook ID

09097394

Wydawca

Bloomsbury Publishing

Waga

570

Wymiary

223 x 150 x 34

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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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