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Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination (IMAGINES Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts) by Marco Benoît Carbone; Ross Clare; Richard Warren; Charlayn von Solms; Filippo Carlà-Uhink is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Turning to a region of South Italy associated with Greater Greece and the geographies of Homer's Odyssey , Marco Benoît Carbone delivers a historical and ethnographic treatment of how places defined in public imagination and media by their associated histories become sites of memory and identity, as their landscape and mythologies turn into insignia of a romanticised antiquity. For the ancient Greeks, Homer had set the marine monsters of the Odyssey in the Strait between Calabria and Sicily. Since then, this passage has been glowing with the aura of its mythological landmarks. Travellers and tourists have played Odysseus by re-enacting his journey. Scholars and explorers have explained the myths as metaphors of whirlpools and marine fauna. The iconic Strait and village of Scilla have turned into place-myths and playgrounds, defined by the region's heritage. Carbone observes the enduring impact of Hellas on the real Strait today. The continuous rekindling of cultural and visual traditions of place in the arts, media, travel, and tourism have intersected with philhellenic historiographies, shaping local policies, public histories, views of development, and forms of Hellenicist ide
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marco Benoît Carbone; Ross Clare; Richard Warren; Charlayn von Solms; Filippo Carlà-Uhink
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350118188
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Art, Religion
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