Reveals Monstrosity to be a central conceptual challenge in every ancient Greek and Roman philosophical system Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in ancient culture.
Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics,.
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.
Reveals Monstrosity to be a central conceptual challenge in every ancient Greek and Roman philosophical system Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in ancient culture