The Sea in the Greek Imagination

The Sea in the Greek Imagination
ISBN-10
0812247655
ISBN-13
9780812247657
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2015-11-06
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Author
Marie-Claire Beaulieu

Description

Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea crossings in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the mortal world, the underworld, and the realms of the immortal. Through six in-depth case studies, she shows how, more than a simple physical boundary, the sea represented the buffer zone between the imaginary and the real, the transitional space between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods.

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