Monsters in Greek Literature: Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology - Paperback

by Fiona Mitchell (Author)

Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in epic narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world.

Author Biography

Fiona Mitchell is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her primary research interests are the representation of bodily abnormality in antiquity, creation narratives, and ancient conceptions of time. She has published chapters and articles on bodies in Greek cosmogonic narratives and omens in Herodotus, and is the editor of the forthcoming collection Time and Chronology in Creation Narratives.