"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"--
"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"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Janet Downie is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Anna Peterson is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures List of Maps List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Spatial Perspectives from the Greek East Janet Downie (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA) and Anna Peterson (Penn State University USA) Part One: Travelers in Literary Space 1. Dio's Moral Geography William Hutton (College of William & Mary USA) 2. Cities in Situ: Landscape in the Urban Orations N. Bryant Kirkland (University of California - Los Angeles USA) 3. Spatial Mnemonics in Dionysius and Pausanias Janet Downie (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA) Part Two: Multitemporal Landscapes 4. Theseus' Imperial Topographies R. Scott Smith (University of New Hampshire USA) Greta Hawes (Australian National University Australia) and Aristogenia Toumpas (Ohio State University USA) 5. Monuments Memory and Space in Imperial Greek Narratives of Alexander Estelle Strazdins (Australian National University Australia) 6. Time Space and the Apocalypse: Greek and Egyptian Narratives of Alexandria Robert Cioffi (Bard College USA) Part Three: Human and Divine Topographies 7. Empire Absence and Disbelief in Lucian's Toxaris Inger N. I. Kuin (University of Virginia USA) 8. Placial Knowledge: The Sacred Well at Pergamum and its Users Artemis Brod (Independent Scholar USA) 9. Body and Time in the Dreamscapes of Artemidorus' Oneirocritica Kate Gilhuly (Wellesley College USA) 10. Writing Bodies in Space: the Attic Countryside in the Epistolary Fiction of Alciphron and Aelian Anna Peterson (Penn State University USA) Envoi: Human and Environment in Imperial Greek literature Jason König (University of St. Andrews UK) Bibliography
List of Figures List of Maps List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Spatial Perspectives from the Greek East Janet Downie (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA) and Anna Peterson (Penn State University USA) Part One: Travelers in Literary Space 1. Dio's Moral Geography William Hutton (College of William & Mary USA) 2. Cities in Situ: Landscape in the Urban Orations N. Bryant Kirkland (University of California - Los Angeles USA) 3. Spatial Mnemonics in Dionysius and Pausanias Janet Downie (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA) Part Two: Multitemporal Landscapes 4. Theseus' Imperial Topographies R. Scott Smith (University of New Hampshire USA) Greta Hawes (Australian National University Australia) and Aristogenia Toumpas (Ohio State University USA) 5. Monuments Memory and Space in Imperial Greek Narratives of Alexander Estelle Strazdins (Australian National University Australia) 6. Time Space and the Apocalypse: Greek and Egyptian Narratives of Alexandria Robert Cioffi (Bard College USA) Part Three: Human and Divine Topographies 7. Empire Absence and Disbelief in Lucian's Toxaris Inger N. I. Kuin (University of Virginia USA) 8. Placial Knowledge: The Sacred Well at Pergamum and its Users Artemis Brod (Independent Scholar USA) 9. Body and Time in the Dreamscapes of Artemidorus' Oneirocritica Kate Gilhuly (Wellesley College USA) 10. Writing Bodies in Space: the Attic Countryside in the Epistolary Fiction of Alciphron and Aelian Anna Peterson (Penn State University USA) Envoi: Human and Environment in Imperial Greek literature Jason König (University of St. Andrews UK) Bibliography
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