Skempis / Ziogas Geography, Topography, Landscape

Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-031531-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 567 Seiten

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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.

Zielgruppe

Anyone interested in Classics, Epic Poetry, Geography, Globalization, Politics, History, Literary Studies, Gender Studies, and Linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skempis, Marios

Ziogas, Ioannis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction: Putting Epic Space in Context;9
2;Ethnography in the Iliad;27
3;Thick Descriptio. From Auerbach to the Boar’s Lair (Od. 19.388–475);45
4;Homer’s Social-Psychological Spaces and Places;71
5;The Ethical Geography of Hesiod’s Works and Days;103
6;Uncertain Geographies of Female Desire in the Hesiodic Catalogue: Atalanta;145
7;Mapping Counterfactuality in Apollonius’ Argonautica;169
8;Landscape Markers and Time in Quintus’ Posthomerica;189
9;Crossing the Hydaspes. Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Boundaries of Epic;217
10;Space and Geography in Ennius’ Annales;231
11;From Delos to Latium. Wandering in the Unknown;273
12;Phenomenology of Space, Place Names and Colonization in the ‘Caieta-Circe’ Sequence of Aeneid 7;299
13;The Topography of Epic Narrative in Ovid’s Metamorphoses;333
14;Ovidian Geographies in Flavian Mythological Epic;357
15;Lucan’s Catalogues and the Landscape of War;381
16;The Long Road to Thebes. The Geography of Journeys in Statius’ Thebaid;413
17;The Voyage of Rediscovery. Consuming Global Space in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica;435
18;Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. The Argo’s Maiden Voyage from Europe into the Unknown;471
19;Bibliography;495
20;List of Contributors;527
21;Index rerum et nominum;531
22;Index locorum;543

Über Autor(innen)

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