古代の海の怪物の伝記 A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster (Ancient Environments)

古代の海の怪物の伝記<br>A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster (Ancient Environments)

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古代の海の怪物の伝記
A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster (Ancient Environments)

Denson, Ryan

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Bloomsbury Academic（2026/09発売）
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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 232 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781350451872
DDC分類 292.13

Full Description

Examining a vast corpus of literary references and artistic representations, this volume offers the first comprehensive study of the ketos - the sea monster imagined by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

The chapters examine the three central traditions of thought that existed about this imaginary animal in Graeco-Roman culture. The first tradition concerns the ketos as a divinely associated monster: a force aligned with marine gods (chiefly Poseidon) and one which was fought by Heracles and Perseus. The second tradition features the ketos in more naturalised contexts, as depicted among ancient geographers and historians, as a type of monster roaming the distant waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The third tradition concerns the fusion of the ketos with Leviathan and the other Old Testament sea monsters in the minds of early Christians. Accordingly, this classical sea monster became the image of the creature that swallowed Jonah, and, alternatively, a monster associated with the Devil and cosmological evil.

While other monsters of Graeco-Roman mythology, such as the Minotaur and Medusa, are household names in modern popular culture, the ketos has effectively been lost in the modern imagination. Yet it was no small part of the Graeco-Roman imagination. This sea monster formed a key aspect as to how the sea-adjacent societies of ancient Greece and Rome perceived ancient marine environments. It was this fantastic sea beast that so haunted ancient mariners, and in turn, which contributed to ancient perceptions of the marine world as a profoundly alien and hostile environment.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Note on Orthography
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Recovering a Lost Classical Monster

Part One: The Divinely Associated Tradition
Chapter 1: The Pets of Marine Divinities
Chapter 2: The Hesione and Andromeda Myths

Part Two: The Ethnographical Tradition
Chapter 3: The Kete of the Mediterranean
Chapter 4: The Kete of the Outer Seas

Part Three: The Christian Tradition
Chapter 5: Jonah's Ketos
Chapter 6: The Christian Assimilation of Leviathan and the Ketos

Conclusion: Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Believe in their Sea Monsters?

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Notes
Bibliography
Index