Oppian's Halieutica : charting a didactic epic / Emily Kneebone
"Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos at large, and on the lessons we can le...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Greek culture in the Roman world
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Physical Description: | xi, 455 Seiten |
Notes: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 412-449 |
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Summary: | "Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos at large, and on the lessons we can learn from fish. Using a combination of close reading and wider interpretative lenses, this book examines the literary texture and cultural relevance of the Halieutica by analysing its sophisticated refraction of earlier literary-critical theories and hexameter traditions, its commentary on human-animal relations, and its contribution to imperial Greek literary, political, and cultural debates. The book demonstrates the importance and cultural centrality of this understudied Greek didactic epic; it is written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epics, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world"-- |
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ISBN: | 9781108840835 9781108744041 |
ac_no: | AC16199843 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Emily Kneebone |