Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Hygra keleutha: The Paths of the Sea
Chapter 2. Heroic Coming-of-Age and the Sea
Chapter 3. The Floating Chest: Maidens, Marriage, and the Sea
Chapter 4. Dolphin Riders Between Hades and Olympus
Chapter 5. Leaps of Faith? Diving into the Sea, Women, and Metamorphosis
Chapter 6. Dionysus and the Sea
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods, or between reality and imagination.

About the Author

Marie-Claire Beaulieu teaches classics at Tufts University.

Reviews

"Marie-Claire Beaulieu's way of analyzing the Greek vision of the sea as a cosmological boundary opens an unexpected and marvelous perspective on the civilization that shaped Western culture. It is a wonderful method to get to the core of Ancient Greek culture: a fascinating dive into a magical sea of myths."
*Emilio Suárez de la Torre, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain*