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1 online resource ( 536 p..) |
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v.140 |
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v.140
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction: The Power of Thetis, 30 Years On -- Part I: The Powers of Thetis -- Strife, Succession, and Cosmic Balance -- The Power and Failures of Thetis in Early Poetic Traditions and Beyond -- The Rape and Binding of Thetis in Its Mythological Context -- Divine Even If Not Olympian: The Mobility of Thetis in the Iliad -- Suggestions and Themes in Thetis' rhesis in Euripides' Andromache -- Thetis in Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo: Dynasty and Succession -- Secrets and Lies: The Power of Thetis in Roman Culture |
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Neque ... sine numine uincis: Thetis, Medusa and (Literary) Creation in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Part II: Thetis' Family Matters -- In the Bosom of the Goddess: Thetis and Dionysus in Il. 6.130-140 -- Motherhood and Shapeshifting in Depictions of Thetis -- Forging Families with Thetis: "Tentacular Thinking" and Queer Kinship in Homer's Iliad -- Mourning Mothers and Premature Deaths: Thetis' Example in Greek Funerary Epigrams -- Part III: Material Culture -- 'A Dread and Revered Goddess': Thetis and Other Gods in Attic Vases |
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Saviour Mermaids of the Ancient Mediterranean: Thetis and the Nereids as Patrons of Ancient Greek Mariners -- Part IV: Reception -- Thetis' Aftermaths -- The Wicked Witch of the West? Thetis' Controversial Transformations in 14th- Century Middle English Vernacular Poetry -- Reading Thetis in Tirso de Molina's El Aquiles -- Thetis and the Shield of Achilles -- Reading the Iliad with Auden -- Thetis of the Silver Screen: The Vengeful and Cosmic Goddess in Clash of the Titans -- Sea Witches in Exile: Thetidean Figures in Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989/2008) and Pirates of the Caribbean (2006/2007) |
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Reception in Performance: Interview and Poetry -- Afterword to the Staying Power of Thetis -- List of Contributors -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2023) |
| Subject |
Thetis (Mythological character) -- In literature
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Khoo, Astrid, editor
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Paprocki, Maciej, editor
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Vos, Gary, editor. https://isni.org/isni/0000000460203491
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Wright, David John, editor
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Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive Pre-2000
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| ISBN |
9783110678437 |
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3110678438 |
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