Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

Literary Territories (eBook, ePUB)

Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Literary Territories argues that the literature of Late Antiquity shared a defining aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical "inhabited world," the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the collection and organization of knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190493349
• Artikelnr.: 44367438

Autorenporträt

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Assistant Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Pilgrimage and Archive
Chapter 2 An Aesthetic of Accumulation
Chapter 3 Locus Amoenus / Loca Sancta
Chapter 4 Apostolic Geography
Chapter 5 The Westwardness of Things
Conclusion
Appendix Astrological, Astronomical, Cosmographical, Geographical, and Topographical Texts in Greek, Latin, and Syriac from 0 to 700 CE
Works Cited