| Description |
1 online resource (568 pages) |
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Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; v. 22 |
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes.
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| Contents |
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 |
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Phenomenology of Space, Place Names and Colonization in the 'Caieta-Circe' Sequence of Aeneid 7The 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 |
| Summary |
This collection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, define, and transform genre-specific geographical configurations. A team of international scholars engages in an interdisciplinary discussion about how Greek and Roman epic poetry interacts with the historical and cultural dynamics of geography. The book brings together the world of Classical literature with current trends in examining the politics of spatial constructions |
| Analysis |
(Produktform)Electronic book text |
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(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft |
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(BISAC Subject Heading)HIS002000 |
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Geography /Literatur |
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Narratologie |
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Geography; epic; topography; narratology |
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EBK: eBook |
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(VLB-WN)9553 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Druckausg.: Geography, topography, landscape |
| Subject |
Space in literature.
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Classical literature -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Classical literature
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Space in literature
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Latein
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Griechisch
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Epos
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Geografie Motiv
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Landschaft Motiv
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Topografie Motiv
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ziōgas, Giannēs.
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| ISBN |
130646255X |
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9781306462556 |
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9783110315318 |
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3110315319 |
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3110314738 |
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9783110314731 |
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