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Imagining Illegitimacy In Classical Greek Literature (greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) by Mary Ebbott is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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In Imagining Illegitimacy, Mary Ebbott investigates metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way in which the illegitimate child (nothos) is imagined in narratives. Employing an approach that maintains that metaphors are a key to understanding abstract ideas, Ebbott connects the many complex metaphors associated with illegitimacy to the ancient Greek conception of illegitimacy. The nothos as imagined in ancient Greek literature is metaphorically

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Mary Ebbott
Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780739105375
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Sociology, History
Updated
2026-03-25

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