The Sea in the Greek Imagination

The Sea in the Greek Imagination
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9780812247657
ISBN-13 : 0812247655
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Download or read book The Sea in the Greek Imagination written by Marie-Claire Beaulieu and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods, or between reality and imagination.


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