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

Name: The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature
ISBN: 9781784533519

Silvia Montiglio

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Silvia Montiglios 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.

Kategorien:

History - Ancient History

Jahr:

2016

Verlag:

I.B. Tauris

Sprache:

english

Seiten:

336

ISBN 10:

1784533513