Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World

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Greek paradoxographical collections. Two exceptions to the general tendency to focus on single authors or genres are Mette (1960), a brief study of the use of thauma-words from Homer to the Classical period, and Hunzinger (2015), an excellent study which begins to outline the importance of thauma in aesthetic terms. Three recent edited volumes, Bianchi and Thévenaz (2004), Hardie (2009) and Gerolemou (2018), have also contributed a range of papers which touch on wonder in antiquity to varying degrees: the first examines mirabilia in various texts, genres and periods; the second concentrates on paradox and the marvellous in Augustan literature and culture; the third examines miracles in various texts in antiquity and beyond. For an overview of the importance of marvels and the 'wonder-culture' of the Roman empire in the Imperial period, see ní Mheallaigh (2014) 261-77. 9 Neer (2010), especially the introduction and chapters 1 and 2. 10 Neer (2010) 57. 11 Neer (2010) 2.Beginning with Thauma 16 Greenblatt (1991) 14. 17 Ancient discussions of the properties of the earth's edges were particularly influential, as Greenblatt (1991) 22 notes: 'The discovery of the New World at once discredits the Ancients who did not know of these lands and, by raising the possibility that what had seemed gross exaggerations and lies were in fact sober accounts of radical otherness, gives classical accounts of prodigies a new life.'

O escudo de Aquiles e a tensão entre guerra e mousiké no canto XVIII da Ilíada

“…Quanto à "virada estética", o Escudo articula a produção de objetos de arte a uma emoção que tem ganhado destaque na bibliografia crítica, o thaûma (Neer, 2010, pp. 57-103;Hunzinger, 2015;Lightfoot, 2021), muito embora, em Homero, ela não seja central como a térpsis 4 quando o contexto são experiências que de forma mais evidente o receptor pode aproximadar da sua própria como ouvinte ou leitor do canto homérico. Por fim, o impulso extraordinário que ganhou a investigação da poesia lírica nas últimas décadas inevitavemente teria consequências sobre a interpretação do Escudo (Steiner, 2021, pp.…”

ENVISIONING THE ART OF EMPIRE IN THELETTER OF ARISTEAS

“…Bing (2005) and Prioux (2008) 177–200; for the emphasis on wonder cf. Elsner (2014), Gasser (2015) 23 and Lightfoot (2021) 38–41; for the idea of display cf. Kuttner (2005).…”