Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Kate Gilhuly is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College. She is author of The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2009). She began her research on cultural geography while a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She has published articles on the erotic geography of ancient Greece and is currently at work on a book on this topic. Nancy Worman is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance, and the body in ancient Greek literature and culture and is currently completing a book on landscape aesthetics in ancient literary theory and criticism as well as co-editing, with Joy Connolly, the Oxford Handbook of Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism. Klappentext This collection of essays produces new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in classical Greek literature. Zusammenfassung This book is a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understandings place! space! and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. These essays demonstrate a range of theoretically sophisticated approaches to ancient historical texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Pindar's Delphi Chris Eckerman; 2. Space and landscape in Xenophon's Anabasis Tim Rood; 3. In the bedroom: interior space in Herodotus' Histories Alex Purves; 4. Ships, walls, men: classical Athens and the poetics of infrastructure Carol Dougherty; 5. Corinth, courtesans, and the politics of place Kate Gilhuly; 6. Mapping literary styles in Aristophanes' Frogs Nancy Worman; 7. The permeable spaces of the Athenian law court Alastair J. L. Blanshard.

Product details

• Authors: Kate (Wellesley College Gilhuly, Kate Worman Gilhuly
• Assisted by: Kate Gilhuly (Editor), Kate (Wellesley College Gilhuly (Editor), Gilhuly Kate (Editor), Nancy Worman (Editor), Nancy (Barnard College Worman (Editor), Worman Nancy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107042124
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04212-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Landscape art & architecture, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, History of Architecture, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval