Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece

A Philology of Worlds
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-83323-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 201 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Cambridge Classical Studies

Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds slowly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gagné, Renaud

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Cosmography; Part I. Sanctuaries of Cosmography: 1. Hyperborea Between Cult and Song; 2. Cosmography and Epiphany; Part II. Cosmography, Periods and Genres; 3. The Wondrous Road: Archaic Travel Narrative; 4. Hyperborea and the Classical Economies of Knowledge; 5. Impossible Worlds? Hellenistic Reconfigurations; Conclusion: Further Trajectories; Glossary; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gagné, Renaud
Renaud Gagné is University Reader in Ancient Greek Literature and Religion at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College. He has published Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2013); Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 2013, with Marianne Hopman); Sacrifices humains (Liège, 2013, with Pierre Bonnechere); Regimes of Comparatism (Leiden, 2018, with Simon Goldhill and Geoffrey Lloyd); Les dieux d'Homère II (Paris, 2019, with Miguel Herrero). In 2015 he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize.