: Marios Skempis, Ioannis Ziogas
: Geography, Topography, Landscape Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110315318
: Trends in Classics - Supplementary VolumesISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.70
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: Altertum
: English
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This collection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, define, and transform genre-specific geographical configurations. A team of international scholars engages in an interdisciplinary discussion about how Greek and Roman epic poetry interacts with the historical and cultural dynamics of geography. The book brings together the world of Classical literature with current trends in examining the politics of spatial constructions.



M. Skempis, University of Erfurt;I. Ziogas, Australian National University, Canberra.
Introduction: Putting Epic Space in Context9
Ethnography in the Iliad27
Thick Descriptio. From Auerbach to the Boar’s Lair (Od. 19.388–475)45
Homer’s Social-Psychological Spaces and Places71
The Ethical Geography of Hesiod’s Works and Days103
Uncertain Geographies of Female Desire in the Hesiodic Catalogue: Atalanta145
Mapping Counterfactuality in Apollonius’ Argonautica169
Landscape Markers and Time in Quintus’ Posthomerica189
Crossing the Hydaspes. Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Boundaries of Epic217
Space and Geography in Ennius’ Annales231
From Delos to Latium. Wandering in the Unknown273
Phenomenology of Space, Place Names and Colonization in the ‘Caieta-Circe’ Sequence of Aeneid 7299
The Topography of Epic Narrative in Ovid’s Metamorphoses333
Ovidian Geographies in Flavian Mythological Epic357
Lucan’s Catalogues and the Landscape of War381
The Long Road to Thebes. The Geography of Journeys in Statius’ Thebaid413
The Voyage of Rediscovery. Consuming Global Space in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica435
Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. The Argo’s Maiden Voyage from Europe into the Unknown471
Bibliography495
List of Contributors527
Index rerum et nominum531
Index locorum543