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

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 455 pages) Series Greek culture in the Roman world Greek culture in the Roman world. Contents Introduction : on fishing -- Didactic poetry. Didactic epic -- Knowledge and pleasure -- Mapping the sea -- Morality at sea. Guile -- Greed -- Lust -- Humans and animals. Epic similes -- Analogical animals -- Humans and other animals -- The world is a sea. Locating monsters -- An empire of fish 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 15, 2020) Subject Oppian, active 2nd century. Halieutica. SUBJECT Halieutica (Oppian) fast Subject Didactic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism Fishes in literature. Fishing in literature. Human-animal relationships in literature. Didactic poetry, Greek Fishes in literature Fishing in literature Human-animal relationships in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2020014088 ISBN 9781108892728 1108892728 9781108896504 1108896502 1108744044 9781108744041

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