City, countryside, and the spatial organization of value in classical antiquity / edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 279
• TeilnehmendeR: Rosen, Ralph Mark.; Sluiter, I.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 279.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (397 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; GENERAL INTRODUCTION /; CITY-COUNTRY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ‘NORMAL POLIS’ /; ON THE BORDER: SACRED LAND AND THE MARGINS OF THE COMMUNITY /; LACK OF BOUNDARIES, ABSENCE OF OPPOSITIONS: THE CITY-COUNTRYSIDE CONTINUUM OF A GREEK PANTHEON /; FARMING, AUTHORITY, AND TRUTH-TELLING IN THE GREEK TRADITION /; HERODOTUS ON SURVIVAL: CITY OR COUNTRYSIDE? /; AT HOME, ROUND HERE, OUT THERE: THE CITY AND TRAGIC SPACE /; THE WALL IN ARISTOPHANES’ BIRDS /; AGROIKIA AND PLEASURE IN ARISTOTLE /; COMIC AISCHROLOGY AND THE URBANIZATION OF AGROIKIA /; HORACE’S GARDEN THOUGHTS: RURAL RETREATS AND THE URBAN IMAGINATION /; DIDO IN HER SETTINGS: CARTHAGE AND ENVIRONS /; CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE IN VERGIL’S ECLOGUES /; MARTIAL BETWEEN ROME AND BILBILIS /; THE BEARDED RUSTIC OF ROMAN ATTICA /; INDEX OF GREEK TERMS /; INDEX OF LATIN TERMS /; INDEX LOCORUM /; GENERAL INDEX /; SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281398578; 9786611398576; 9047409183
• ISSN: 0169-8958
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter.

The third in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical antiquity, this volume examines the dichotomy between 'city' and 'country' in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Fourteen papers address a variety of topics on this theme, and include a variety of methodological approaches—archaeological, iconographic, literary and philosophical. The book demonstrates that, despite a common rhetoric of polarity in antiquity that tended to construct city and countryside as very distinct, oppositional categories, there was far less consistency (and far more nuance) about the ideologies felt to inhere in each.