Spell of Hypnos

Silvia Montiglio

earliest edition we have, 2015 I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2016 336 pages

Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, often by a dream. It could be the site of dramatic intervention by a god or goddess. It might mark the transition in a narrative relationship, as when Penelope for the first time in weeks slumbers happily through Odysseus' vengefu...

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Spell of Hypnos edition · 2020 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 336 pages · 9781350197435
Spell of Hypnos edition · 2016 · I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited · 336 pages · 9781784533519
Spell of Hypnos edition · 2015 · I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited · 336 pages · 9780857739834

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