Des contributions sur les créatures fantastiques imaginées pendant l'Antiquité. Leur apparition dans diverses cultures, leur histoire, leur transmission à travers la littérature, les arts puis plus tardivement le cinéma et les jeux vidéos, ainsi que ce qu'elles représentent sont étudiés du point de vue de l'archéologie, de l'histoire de l'art, de la philologie et de la philosophie. ©Electre 2024
Not satisfied with what nature offered, human beings wanted to go beyond reality and invented mysterious and intriguing creatures populating their world. During Antiquity, every culture had its own strange creatures, that mixed the forms of one or more animal, plant and human species in an infinite number of more-or-less fanciful combinations. Griffins, sphinxes, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs, pygmies, werewolves, winged monsters and unspeakable hybrids, fantastic beasts abound in the imagination of many populations throughout Antiquity. Most of them continue to live, sometimes transformed, through fairy tales, literature, movies and videogames.
Faced with the abundance and variety of the ancient fantastic bestiary, the questions that come to mind are : Where do fantastic beasts come from ? How do they appear in different cultures ? What is their history, how did they survive until now ? And above all, what are fantastic beasts ? This book will explore these questions through the lens of archaeology, art history, philology and philosophy. The result is a hybrid book, precisely like the fantastic animals that constitute its object, a book which offers different approaches of analysis while being aware that our means are often vain to capture these elusive figures, which ultimately are more like us than they seem. Man, like Oedipus, will often prove to be more monstrous than the Sphinx...
Paru le : 18/02/2021
Thématique : Anthropologie
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Collection(s) : Fervet opus
Contributeur(s) : Directeur de publication : Sarah Béthume - Directeur de publication : Paolo Tomassini
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-39061-103-5
EAN13 : 9782390611035
Reliure : Broché
Pages : VII-222
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.3 cm
Poids: 373 g
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