Space, place, and landscape in ancient Greek literature and culture
By: edited by Kate Gilhuly, Wellesley College, Nancy Worman, Barnard College
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781107042124; 9781107618534; 9781139990394
Subjects: Ancient; Tid och rum; Space in literature; Zeit; Landskapsarkeologi; Literatur; Space and time; Anthropogeografie; Civilization; Landschaft; HISTORY; Kulturgeografi; Social aspects; Landscapes; General; Cultural geography; Raum; Griechisch
Description: "Landscape and place are currently important topics in the study of classical literature. This volume examines how ancient Greeks of the archaic and classical period used geography in literary contexts, and how the representation of place in texts can be linked to contemporary social practices. The contributors explore how the Greeks related to the spaces and places around them and how they invested these places with meaning. They use examples from key texts in ancient Greek literature and treat a variety of textual places, from the intimate to the expansive, including the bedroom, ritual space, law courts, theatrical space, the city, and the landscape of war. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the important relationships--such as body and place, landscape and identity, ritual and space--that emerge from close analysis of the texts"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pindar's Delphi / Chris Eckerman; title: Space and landscape in Xenophon's Anabasis / Tim Rood; title: In the bedroom : interior space in Herodotus' Histories / Alex Purves; title: Ships, walls, men : classical Athens and the poetics of infrastructure / Carol Dougherty; title: Corinth, courtesans, and the politics of place / Kate Gilhuly; title: Mapping literary styles in Aristophanes' Frogs / Nancy Worman; title: The permeable spaces of the Athenian law court / Alastair J.L. Blanshard.