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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

1 online resource (iv, 426 pages)

ISBN 9781474456234 (e-book)

ISBN 9781474456203

Print version: Del Lucchese, Filippo, 1969- Monstrosity and philosophy : radical otherness in Greek and Latin culture. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2019 iv, 426 pages ISBN 9781474456203

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-393) and indexes

Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in ancient culture. They raise enduring philosophical questions: about chaos and order; about divinity and perversion; about meaning and purpose; about the hierarchy of nature or its absence. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought..

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