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Author Hudson, Martyn.

Title Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World / Martyn Hudson.

Imprint Santa Barbara, CA : Punctum Books, 2017.

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Edition 1st edition.
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Summary This book treads new paths through the labyrinths of our human thought. It meanders through the darkness to encounter the monsters at the heart of the maze: Minotaurs, Centaurs, Automata, Makers, Humans. One part of our human thought emerges from classical Ionia and Greek civilisation more generally. We obsessively return to that thought, tread again its pathways, re-enact its stories, repeat its motifs and gestures. We return time and time again to construct and re-construct the beings which were part of its cosmology and mythology - stories enacted from a classical world which is itself at once imaginary and material. The "Never Never Lands" of the ancient world contain fabulous beasts and humans and landscapes of desire and violence. We encounter the rioting Centaurs there and never again cease to conjure them up time and time again through our history. The Centaur mythologies display a fascination with animals and what binds and divides human beings from them. The Centaur hints ultimately at the idea of the genesis of civilisation itself. The Labyrinth, constructed by Daedalus, is itself a prison and a way of thinking about making, designing, and human aspiration. Designed by humans it offers mysteries that would be repeated time and time again - a motif which is replicated through human history. Daedalus himself is an archetype for creation and mastery, the designer of artefacts and machines which would be the beginning of forays into the total domination of nature. Centaurs, Labyrinths, Automata offer clues to the origins and ultimately the futures of humanity and what might come after it.
Contents Introduction: Centaurs, rioting at Thessaly -- Never never lands -- Looking for centaurs -- Surveying the labyrinth -- Daedalus and his machines -- Ghosts, reading, and repetition -- Conclusion: Centaurs, human and non-human.
Subject Mythology, Classical.
Centaurs.
Memory.
Mythologie ancienne.
Centaures.
Ancient Greek religion & mythology.
Centaurs
Memory
Mythology, Classical
Indexed Term classical literature
ancient history
monsters
mythology
centaurs
Other Form: Print version: Hudson, Martyn. Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World. 1st edition. Santa Barbara, CA : Punctum Books, 2017 (DLC) 2017962641
ISBN 9781947447400
1947447408
9781947447417
1947447416
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