Oppian's Halieutica : charting a didactic epic / Emily Kneebone

• VerfasserIn: Kneebone, Emily ca. 20./21. Jh.
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Greek culture in the Roman world
• Physical Description: xi, 455 Seiten
• Notes: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 412-449

"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"--