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Informationen zum Autor Nancy Worman is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance and the body in Greek literature and culture, such as Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Most recently she has published articles on the aesthetics of tragic embodiment and co-edited Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (with Kate Gilhuly, Cambridge University Press, 2014). Klappentext Explores a new area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how landscape and metaphor shape discussions of style. Zusammenfassung Explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how metaphors of place and spaces of metaphor shape discussions of literary style in Greece and beyond. Figurative imagery highlighting details of significant landscapes provide writers with a vivid and influential vocabulary for distinguishing among styles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: dreams of order; 1. Mimesis, style, and the spaces of metaphor; 2. Rural resources: Hesiod, Pindar, and establishing poetic dominion; 3. On the road: charting the path of literary judgment in Aristophanes; 4. Rural retreats: staking philosophy's terrain in Plato; 5. Diaspora: journeys and idylls in Hellenistic poetry; 6. On the road again: Demetrius and fellow travelers on aesthetic re-routings; 7. In Plato's garden: reordering the retreat in Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Epilogue: dreaming in the garden with Proust.
