Research Catalog

Title

Valuing landscape in classical antiquity : natural environment and cultural imagination / edited by Jeremy McInerney, Ineke Sluiter ; with the assistance of Bob Corthals.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• McInerney, Jeremy, 1958-
• Sluiter, I. (Ineke)

Description

xv, 495 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm

Summary

Where am I?. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture. In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.

Series Statement

Mnemosyne Supplements: Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; volume 393

Uniform Title

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 393.

Subjects

• Rome (Empire)
• Landscapes > Rome > Religious aspects
• Landscapes > Religious aspects
• Landscapes > Greece > Religious aspects
• Cultural landscapes > Greece
• Cultural landscapes > Rome
• Greece

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

General introduction/ Jeremy McInerney and Ineke Sluiter Mountains. Mount Etna in the Greco-Roman imaginaire: culture and liquid fire / Richard Buxton -- Strabos mountains / Jason König -- Mountain, myth, and territory: Teuthrania as focal point in the landscape of Pergamon / Christina G. Williamson Underground and Underworld. Diving underground: giving meaning to subterranean rivers/ Julie Baleriaux -- Experience and Stimmung: landscapes of the underworld in Senecas plays / Kathrin Winter The Sacred. Birds around the temple: constructing a sacred environment / Margaret M. Miles -- Juno Sospita and the draco: myth, image, and ritual in the landscape of the Alban Hills / Rianne Hermans -- Charismatic landscapes? Scenes from Central Greece under Roman rule / Betsey A. Robinson Battlefields and Memory of War. Heritage in the landscape: the Heroic Tumuli in the Troad region / Elizabeth Minchin -- Land at peace and sea at war : landscape and the memory of Actium in Greek epigrams and Propertius Elegies / Bettina Reitz-Joosse -- Thessaly as an intertextual landscape of civil war in Latin poetry / Annemarie Ambühl Moving Around. Migration and landscapes of value in Attica / Danielle L. Kellogg -- Songs of homecoming: sites of victories and celebrations in Pindars Victory Odes / Maša Ćulumović The mythical landscapers of Augustan Rome / Lissa Crofton-Sleigh -- Polyvalent Tomi: Ovids landscape of relegation and the Romanization of the Black Sea region / Christoph Pieper -- Stones, names, stories, and bodies: Pausanias before the walls of seven-gated Thebes / Greta Hawes.

Call Number

JFE 16-10866

ISBN

• 9789004319707 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004319700 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2016011515

OCLC

943704990

Title

Valuing landscape in classical antiquity : natural environment and cultural imagination / edited by Jeremy McInerney, Ineke Sluiter ; with the assistance of Bob Corthals.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Mnemosyne Supplements: Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 0169-8958 ; volume 393

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 393.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

McInerney, Jeremy, 1958- editor.

Sluiter, I. (Ineke), editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10866