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Zusatztext The book presents an elegant thesis...It offers us a new framework for understanding Greek literature's relation to history, particularly the ideological work it did, and for seeing that literature as a dynamic, developing, and spatially informed system. Informationen zum Autor Alexander Kirichenko is a Researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin. He holds a PhD from Harvard having studied Classics in St Petersburg. His publications include A Comedy of Storytelling: Theatricality and Narrative in Apuleius' Golden Ass (2010) and Lehrreiche Trugbilder: Senecas Tragödien und die Rhetorik des Sehens (2013), and articles on Pindar, Callimachus, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Petronius, Seneca, Statius, and Apuleius. Klappentext Alexander Kirichenko argues that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. The discussion focuses on how power and space were understood in the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods. Zusammenfassung Alexander Kirichenko argues that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. The discussion focuses on how power and space were understood in the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction Part I. Archaic Greece: Myth and Truth Introduction 1: Homer and the Heroic Ideal 2: Hesiod and the Language of Truth Conclusion Part II. Classical Athens: Ideology and Dialogue Introduction 3: The Ideal State of Athens 4: Plato's Ideal State of Philosophy Conclusion Part III. Ptolemaic Alexandria: Memory and Make-Believe Introduction 5: Memory and Desire in Callimachus 6: Theocritus Poetic Landscapes Epilogue
