Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic

Marios Skempis, Ioannis Ziogas

Walter de Gruyter, 12 בדצמ׳ 2013 - 567 עמודים

By introducing a multifaceted approach to epic geography, the editors of the volume wish to provide a critical assessment of spatial perception, of its repercussions on shaping narrative as well as of its discursive traits and cultural contexts. Taking the genre-specific boundaries of Greco-Roman epic poetry as a case in point, a team of international scholars examines issues that lie at the heart of modern criticism on human geography. Modern and ancient discourse on space representations revolves around the nation-shaping force of geography, the gendered dynamics of landscapes, the topography of isolation and integration, the politics of imperialism, globalization, environmentalism as well as the power of language and narrative to turn space into place. One of the major aims of the volume is to show that the world of the Classics is not just the origin, but the essence of current debates on spatial constructions and reconstructions.

תוכן

• Putting Epic Space in Context: 1
• Ethnography in the Iliad: 19
• Thick Descriptio From Auerbach to the Boars Lair Od 19388475: 37
• Homers SocialPsychological Spaces and Places: 63
• The Ethical Geography of Hesiods Works and Days: 95
• Atalanta: 137
• Mapping Counterfactuality in Apollonius Argonautica: 161
• Landscape Markers and Time in Quintus Posthomerica: 181
• Crossing the Hydaspes Nonnus Dionysiaca and the Boundaries of Epic: 209
• Space and Geography in Ennius Annales: 223
• From Delos to Latium Wandering in the Unknown: 265
• Phenomenology of Space Place Names and Colonization in the CaietaCirce Sequence of Aeneid 7 ...: 291
• The Topography of Epic Narrative in Ovids Metamorphoses: 325
• Ovidian Geographies in Flavian Mythological Epic: 349
• Lucans Catalogues and the Landscape of War: 373
• The Long Road to Thebes The Geography of Journeys in Statius Thebaid: 405
• The Voyage of Rediscovery Consuming Global Space in Valerius Flaccus Argonautica: 427
• Valerius Flaccus Argonautica The Argos Maiden Voyage from Europe into the Unknown: 463
• Bibliography: 487
• List of Contributors: 519
• Index rerum et nominum: 523
• Index locorum: 535

מידע על המחבר

M. Skempis, University of Erfurt; I. Ziogas, Australian National University, Canberra.

מידע ביבליוגרפי

• כותרת: Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic; כרך 22 מתוך Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
• עורכים: Marios Skempis, Ioannis Ziogas
• מהדורה: הדפסה חוזרת
• הוצאה: Walter de Gruyter, 2013
• ISBN: 3110315319, 9783110315318
• אורך: 567 עמודים