Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World

Focusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examines the representation of space in literary, rhetorical, and mythographic texts of the period. Authors under discussion include major figures such as Dio of Prusa, Aelius Aristides, Arrian, Lucian, and Philostratus. Texts by Apollodorus, Alciphron, Aelian, Artemidorus, and Pausanias also receive attention, along with the Alexander Romance and Egyptian apocalyptic narratives. Attending to the relationship between mobility and cultural rootedness, each chapter examines how Greek writers of the imperial era constructed and represented the multi-temporal landscapes of their contemporary world.This edited volume contributes to a growing interest in the topographical imagination of the ancient Mediterranean. The Roman Empire was a world of vast trade networks, cosmopolitan culture, and high elite mobility, making geography an essential component of the language of power and culture. Volume contributors present a composite picture of how imperial-era Greek writers constructed and curated topographies of the Greek world - urban, rural, cultic, and monumental - to tell new stories about Hellenic space and its place within the broader empire.>

Product details

• Authors: Janet Downie, Anna Peterson
• Assisted by: Anna Collar (Editor), Janet Downie (Editor), Downie Janet (Editor), Esther Eidinow (Editor), Katharina Lorenz (Editor), Anna Peterson (Editor), Peterson Anna (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781350383616
• ISBN: 978-1-350-38361-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Ancient Environments
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Physical geography & topography, Ancient Greek and Roman literature