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Author Hopman, Marianne Govers, 1974-

Title Scylla : myth, metaphor, paradox / Marianne Govers Hopman.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Summary "What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the dominant view that a mythical symbol denotes a single, clear-cut 'figure' and proposes instead to conceptualize the name 'Scylla' as a combination of three concepts - sea, dog and woman - whose articulation changes over time. While archaic and classical Greek versions usually emphasize the metaphorical coherence of Scylla's various components, the name is increasingly treated as a well-defined but also paradoxical construct from the late fourth century BCE onward. Proceeding through detailed analyses of Greek and Roman texts and images, Professor Hopman shows how the same name can variously express anxieties about the sea, dogs, aggressive women and shy maidens, thus offering an empirical response to the semiotic puzzle raised by non-referential proper names"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Figures; Preface and acknowledgments; Note on transliterations and translations; Abbreviations; Introduction; A semiotic approach to mythical names; Scylla in fiction and cultural reflections; Myths and metaphors; Outline; Part I Scylla in the Odyssey; Chapter 1 The impregnable monster; Crossing Jason's path; A parodic duel; A failed hesiodic combat; Scylla and the Cyclops; Chapter 2 A poetic hazard; The silence of Odysseus; Forgetting the nostos; Competing traditions; Chapter 3 The gullet of the sea; Eating up sailors; The voracious sea; Body and space.
Chapter 4 Puzzles and riddlesScylla the riddle; From riddle to aporia; Sailing the boundless sea; Enigmatic females; Part II Scylla in classical Greece; Chapter 5 A feminine composite; Texts and images; How to make a monster; Semantic units; Chapter 6 Scylla as femme fatale; Sexual anxieties; Metaphorical pivots; Visual catachreses; Chapter 7 The untamed maiden; Parthenic Scyllae; Homologies and metaphors; Scylla and Thetis; Part III Scylla in Hellenistic Greece and Rome; Chapter 8 Rationalizing the monster; The monster as mythodes; Three kinds of rationalization; Exegetes and poets.
Chapter 9 Organizing the traditionGathering a corpus; Mythical biography; Homonyms; The semantics of conflation; Chapter 10 Roman versions of a Greek myth; Exemplary Scyllae; Aesthetics of contrast; Chapter 11 Psychology and re-semanticization in Ovid's Metamorphoses; From combat tale to maiden story; Metamorphosis as contagion; Ambiguous maidens; Epilogue; From concept to figure; The plasticity of mythical names; Mythical homonyms; Conceptualizing monsters, heroes, and gods; Bibliography; Index of passages discussed; Index of Greek and Latin words; Index of objects discussed; General index.
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Subject Scylla and Charybdis (Greek mythology)
Scylla and Charybdis (Greek mythology)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hopman, Marianne Govers, 1974- Scylla. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107026766 (DLC) 2012017772 (OCoLC)793726554
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