TY  - GEN
AU  - Del Lucchese,Filippo
TI  - Monstrosity and Philosophy : Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture
SN  - 9781474456234
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History & Surveys
KW  - Ancient & Classical
N1  - Open Access
N2  - Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44135/1/external_content.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30745
ER  -