Imagining empire
Subtitle: political space in Hellenistic and Roman literature
By: Victoria Rimell, Markus Asper (eds.).
Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften -- Neu Folge, 2. Reihe, Band 153; Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften -- n.F., 2. Reihe, Bd. 153.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9783825367541
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Space in literature; Geopolitics in literature; Classical literature; History and criticism
Description: This volume investigates space in Greek and Latin literature as a real and imaginary dimension in which social relations, identities, power and knowledge are materialized, represented and (re)performed. The twelve contributors focus on Hellenistic Alexandria and late Republican to early Imperial Rome, yet the essays range from Greece, Egypt, and Italy to the Black Sea, Asia, and North Africa, taking in Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Caesar, Sallust, Cicero, Virgil, Statius, and Juvenal along the way. As well as offering innovative interpretations of key texts from the third century BCE to the second century CE, the volume attempts to respond critically and imaginatively to the still-burgeoning body of work on space across the humanities in the wake of post-colonialist and poststructuralist thinking, and considers its potentially challenging implications for Classics as an evolving field of study.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and indexes.