Geography, Topography, Landscape Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic

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 ep...

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Main Authors Skempis, Marios, Ziogas, Ioannis
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2013
De Gruyter, Inc
Edition1
SeriesTrends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
Subjects
Classical literature > History and criticism
epic
General history of ancient world
Geography
Geography /Literatur
HISTORY
HISTORY / Ancient / General
Landscapes
Narratologie
narratology
Physical geography
Space in literature
topography
Geography
epic
narratology
topography
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ISBN3110315319
9783110315318
9783110314731
3110314738
DOI10.1515/9783110315318

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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Introduction: Putting Epic Space in Context -- Ethnography in the Iliad -- Thick Descriptio. From Auerbach to the Boar's Lair (Od. 19.388-475) -- Homer's Social-Psychological Spaces and Places -- The Ethical Geography of Hesiod's Works and Days -- Uncertain Geographies of Female Desire in the Hesiodic Catalogue: Atalanta -- Mapping Counterfactuality in Apollonius' Argonautica -- Landscape Markers and Time in Quintus' Posthomerica -- Crossing the Hydaspes. Nonnus' Dionysiaca and the Boundaries of Epic -- Space and Geography in Ennius' Annales -- From Delos to Latium. Wandering in the Unknown -- Phenomenology of Space, Place Names and Colonization in the 'Caieta-Circe' Sequence of Aeneid 7 -- The Topography of Epic Narrative in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Ovidian Geographies in Flavian Mythological Epic -- Lucan's Catalogues and the Landscape of War -- The Long Road to Thebes. The Geography of Journeys in Statius' Thebaid -- The Voyage of Rediscovery. Consuming Global Space in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica -- Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica. The Argo's Maiden Voyage from Europe into the Unknown -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index rerum et nominum -- Index locorum
  • Crossing the Hydaspes --
  • Contents --
  • List of Contributors --
  • Thick Description --
  • Lucan’s Catalogues and the Landscape of War --
  • Foreword --
  • The Ethical Geography of Hesiod’s Works and Days --
  • Space and Geography in Ennius’ Annales --
  • Homer’s Social-Psychological Spaces and Places --
  • Bibliography --
  • Index rerum et nominum --
  • Introduction: Putting Epic Space in Context --
  • Uncertain Geographies of Female Desire in the Hesiodic Catalogue: Atalanta --
  • Index locorum
  • The Voyage of Rediscovery --
  • The Topography of Epic Narrative in Ovid’s Metamorphoses --
  • The Long Road to Thebes --
  • Gesine Manuwald Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica --
  • Ethnography in the Iliad --
  • From Delos to Latium --
  • Phenomenology of Space, Place Names and Colonization in the ‘Caieta-Circe’ Sequence of Aeneid 7 --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Landscape Markers and Time in Quintus’ Posthomerica --
  • Ovidian Geographies in Flavian Mythological Epic --
  • Mapping Counterfactuality in Apollonius’ Argonautica --