Geography, Topography, Landscape : : Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic / / ed. by Ioannis Ziogas, Marios Skempis.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 22
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Physical Description:1 online resource (559 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Putting Epic Space in Context
  • Ethnography in the Iliad
  • Thick Description
  • 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
  • Space and Geography in Ennius’ Annales
  • From Delos to Latium
  • 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 Voyage of Rediscovery
  • Gesine Manuwald Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index rerum et nominum
  • Index locorum