1st Edition
Monsters in Greek Literature Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1 – Cosmogony
Chapter 1 – Hesiod's Theogony
Chapter 2 – The Orphic Theogonies
Part 2 – Ethnography
Chapter 3 – Herodotus
Chapter 4 – Ctesias and Megasthenes
Part 3 – Biology
Chapter 5 – Aristotle
Conclusion
Index
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.
"This study is a welcome contribution to an area of scholarship that is ripe for elaboration. The monstrous appears throughout all kinds of literature, and Fiona Mitchell has taken a group of texts and used their contrasting depictions of monsters to understand their relationship to one another and to the literature that follows them. I would describe this work as a generous and attentive survey." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
