Order among Disorder: Poseidon’s Underwater Kingdom and Utopic Marine Environments

• Autores: Ryan Denson
• Localización: The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception / coord. por Hamish Williams, Ross Clare, 2022, ISBN 9781800854239, págs. 147-164
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The notion that there were any mythical abodes imagined in a submarine setting by ancient writers has, until recently, typically only been mentioned in passing by classicists. Scholars interested in mythological, utopic spaces of Greco-Roman antiquity have conventionally concentrated upon the terrestrial variety, such as the Ethiopians’ and the Hyperboreans’. Ferguson, for instance, commenced his monograph on the subject with a chapter on the “Homeric beginnings” of such depictions, assessing the Homeric councils of the mortal heroes and Olympian gods as well as the society of the blameless Ethiopians. Ferguson’s expansive approach to ancient utopias considered utopianism as generally the...