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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

Beschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous.

Autor

Debbie Felton is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on folklore in classical antiquity, especially tales of the monstrous and supernatural. Her books include Haunted Greece and Rome (1999), the edited volumes Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity (2018) and A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity (2021), and Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History (2021). She enjoys bringing her research into the public sphere, and has appeared in various media (newspapers, radio, tv, blogs, podcasts, webinars) in the USA and Europe.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 179mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1392g
• ISBN-13: 9780192896506
• ISBN-10: 0192896504
• Artikelnr.: 69192323