The Sea in the Greek Imagination
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The Sea in the Greek Imagination

Marie-Claire Beaulieu

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The Sea in the Greek Imagination

Marie-Claire Beaulieu

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The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life and livelihood of many who dwell on the islands and coastal areas of the Mediterranean, and it has been so since long ago—the sea loomed large in the Homeric epics and throughout Greek mythology. The Greeks of antiquity turned to the sea for food and for transport; for war, commerce, and scientific advancement; and for religious purification and other rites. Yet, the sea was simultaneously the center of Greek life and its limit. For, while the sea was a giver of much, it also embodied danger and uncertainty. It was in turns barren and fertile, and pictured as both a roadway and a terrifying void. The image of the sea in Greek myth is as conflicting as it is common, with sea crossings taking on seemingly incompatible meanings in different circumstances.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 positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the mortal world, the underworld, and the realms of the immortal. Through six in-depth case studies, she shows how, more than a simple physical boundary, the sea represented the buffer zone between the imaginary and the real, the transitional space between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods. From dolphin riders to Dionysus, maidens to mermen, Beaulieu investigates the role of the sea in Greek myth in a broad-ranging and innovative study.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780812291964
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Sea in the Greek Imagination
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1. Hygra keleutha: The Paths of the Sea
  10. Chapter 2. Heroic Coming-of-Age and the Sea
  11. Chapter 3. The Floating Chest: Maidens, Marriage, and the Sea
  12. Chapter 4. Dolphin Riders Between Hades and Olympus
  13. Chapter 5. Leaps of Faith? Diving into the Sea, Women, and Metamorphosis
  14. Chapter 6. Dionysus and the Sea
  15. Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Acknowledgments
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APA 6 Citation

Beaulieu, M.-C. (2015). The Sea in the Greek Imagination ([edition unavailable]). University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/732543/the-sea-in-the-greek-imagination-pdf (Original work published 2015)

Chicago Citation

Beaulieu, Marie-Claire. (2015) 2015. The Sea in the Greek Imagination. [Edition unavailable]. University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. https://www.perlego.com/book/732543/the-sea-in-the-greek-imagination-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Beaulieu, M.-C. (2015) The Sea in the Greek Imagination. [edition unavailable]. University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/732543/the-sea-in-the-greek-imagination-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Beaulieu, Marie-Claire. The Sea in the Greek Imagination. [edition unavailable]. University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2015. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.