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Bust of Polyphemus

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...This sculpted head of the giant Cyclops Polyphemus came from a larger sculptural group depicting a scene from The Odyssey. We cannot tell if it is a Greek or Roman work, since Roman artists often very closely copied Greek models...

Sindbādnāma: A Zurvanite Cosmogonic Legend?

Mohsen Zakeri

Mohsen Zakeri

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Early Islamic Iran

I.B.Tauris, 2012

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...By cosmogony (āfarinesh) is understood an account of how the cosmos first came into being. The word cosmogony is, however, generally applied to mythic–religious accounts of the world’s origin current among the peoples of antiquity. Ancient...

Pliny the Elder, Natural History

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...For an excellent detailed commentary on this passage, see Pliny the Elder, The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII, 1–34), ed. Tyler T Travillian (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 105–23, with notes (pp. 15–26) on all of Pliny’s sources...

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...By far the oldest text included in this volume, The Epic of Gilgamesh retains its ability to delight. Though its literary history dates back to the third millennium BCE, the “standard” version is written in Babylonian and dates from...

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Lycaon and Cadmus

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BCE–17/18 CE), known now simply as Ovid, is one of the most celebrated of Roman poets, though his life was marked by tragedy. After enjoying success with Amores (16 BCE), Heroides (?), and Metamorphoses (8 CE), Ovid...

Hesiod, Theogony

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...Most likely writing sometime in the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, the Greek poet Hesiod is known not so much for elegant poetry but for the earliest extant version of the Greek creation myth. Drawing on Near Eastern creation...

Modern Images of Grendel (Twentieth Century)

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...Grendel looms large in the narrative of Beowulf and in many modern critical discussions of the epic poem. The monster is called a “mearcstapa” in the poem, which literally means “border-walker.” This monster, who lives with his mother...

St. Augustine of Hippo, City of God — Selections (XVI.vii–ix; XXI.vii–viii)

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...Augustine (354–430 CE) was bishop of the North African town of Hippo. His works had profound influence on theology and philosophy in the Latin West, and he is considered one of the most important of the Church Fathers whose impact...

The Bible

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

Book chapter

...The Bible is perhaps the most important and influential text in Western cultural history. It did not begin as a single book, but is instead something of a compilation of sources written by Jews and Christians in the ancient period...

Renaissance Figures of Monsters

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

Book chapter

...The images that accompany Ambroise Paré’s On Monsters present a range of monster types, for which the text gives a variety of explanations. Paré claims that the foal with the human face foretold a war between Florence and Pisa...