Emily Kneebone

Oppian's Halieutica

Charting a Didactic Epic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9781108840835
• ISBN-10: 1108840833
• Artikelnr.: 58810860

Autorenporträt

Emily Kneebone is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. She works primarily on Greek literature of the Roman imperial period and has published on heroic ethics in posthomeric Greek epic, diaspora Jewish identity in Josephus' adaptation of the Hebrew Bible for a Greco-Roman audience, mortal expertise in didactic poetry, and animals in later Greek poetry and prose.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. On fishing
I. Didactic poetry: 1. Didactic epic
2. Knowledge and pleasure
3. Mapping the sea
II. Morality at sea: 4. Guile
5. Greed
6. Lust
III. Humans and animals: 7. Epic similes
8. Analogical animals
9. Humans and other animals
IV. Seas real and unreal: 10. Locating monsters
11. An empire of fish
Bibliography.