The sea in the Greek imagination

The sea in the Greek imagination / Marie-Claire Beaulieu.

In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea crossings in Greek myth and imagery by positioning the sea as a cosmological boundary between the mortal world, the underworld, and the realms of the immortal.--Publisher descriptio...

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Main Author: Beaulieu, Marie-Claire, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Ocean > Religious aspects.
Ocean > Mythology.
Mythology, Greek.
Liminality.
Life.
Death.
Table of Contents:
  • Hygra keleutha: the paths of the sea
  • Heroic coming-of-age and the sea
  • The floating chest: maidens, marriage, and the sea
  • Dolphin riders between Hades and Olympus
  • Leaps of faith? Diving into the sea, women, and metamorphosis
  • Dionysus and the sea.

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