The Monstrous World: Corporeal Discourses in Phlegon of Tralles’ «Mirabilia», 1st Edition eBook

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Revenants, oracular heads, hermaphrodites, sex-changers, human-animal children, multiple pregnancies, births, body features … This is just a sample of subjects that Phlegon of Tralles explored in the 2nd century AD in his “Mirabilia”. This study identifies the common motifs of Phlegon’s text and determines his criterion of selection: using the cultural category of “monster”, it argues that Phlegon exclusively collected stories of either hybrid creatures or human “record-breakers” with respect to scale, size and multiplicity of their corporeal features. In this light, the “Mirabilia” appear to be a book on monsters and the monstrous that corresponds with a general fondness for marvels and oddities during the Roman imperial period.

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The Monstrous World: Corporeal Discourses in Phlegon of Tralles’ «Mirabilia» 1st Edition is written by Julia Doroszewska and published by Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Monstrous World are 9783631695791, 3631695799 and the print ISBNs are 9783631656266, 3631656262. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9783631695807, 9783653048704.