Research Catalog

Title

Space, place, and landscape in ancient Greek literature and culture / edited by Kate Gilhuly, Nancy Worman.

Publication

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Gilhuly, Kate, 1964-
• Worman, Nancy, 1963-

Description

ix, 283 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subject

• Space and time > Social aspects > Greece
• Landscapes > Social aspects > Greece
• Cultural geography > Greece
• Space in literature
• Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pindar's Delphi / Chris Eckerman -- Space and landscape in Xenophon's Anabasis / Tim Rood -- In the bedroom : interior space in Herodotus' Histories / Alex Purves -- Ships, walls, men : classical Athens and the poetics of infrastructure / Carol Dougherty -- Corinth, courtesans, and the politics of place / Kate Gilhuly -- Mapping literary styles in Aristophanes' Frogs / Nancy Worman -- The permeable spaces of the Athenian law court / Alastair J. L. Blanshard.

Call Number

JFE 14-7844

ISBN

• 9781107042124 (hardback)
• 1107042127 (hardback)
• 9781107618534 (paperback)
• 1107618533 (paperback)

LCCN

2014002756

OCLC

871037126

Title

Space, place, and landscape in ancient Greek literature and culture / edited by Kate Gilhuly, Nancy Worman.

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gilhuly, Kate, 1964- editor.

Worman, Nancy, 1963- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-7844