Valuing landscape in classical antiquity : natural environment and cultural imagination /

Valuing landscape in classical antiquity : natural environment and cultural imagination /

'Where am I?'. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing mea...

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Other Authors: McInerney, Jeremy, 1958-, Sluiter, I.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 393.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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Cultural landscapes > Greece.
Cultural landscapes > Rome.
Landscapes > Greece > Religious aspects.
Landscapes > Rome > Religious aspects.

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Call Number: DE31

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
  • Jeremy McInerney and Ineke Sluiter
  • General Introduction /
  • Jeremy McInerney and Ineke Sluiter
  • Mount Etna in the Greco-Roman imaginaire: Culture and Liquid Fire /
  • Richard Buxton
  • Strabo's Mountains /
  • Jason König
  • Mountain, Myth, and Territory: Teuthrania as Focal Point in the Landscape of Pergamon /
  • Christina G. Williamson
  • Diving Underground: Giving Meaning to Subterranean Rivers /
  • Julie Baleriaux
  • Experience and Stimmung: Landscapes of the Underworld in Seneca's Plays /
  • Kathrin Winter
  • Birds around the Temple: Constructing a Sacred Environment /
  • Margaret M. Miles
  • Juno Sospita and the draco: Myth, Image, and Ritual in the Landscape of the Alban Hills /
  • Rianne Hermans
  • Charismatic Landscapes? Scenes from Central Greece under Roman Rule /
  • Betsey A. Robinson
  • Heritage in the Landscape: The 'Heroic Tumuli' in the Troad Region /
  • Elizabeth Minchin
  • Land at Peace and Sea at War: Landscape and the Memory of Actium in Greek Epigrams and Propertius' Elegies /
  • Bettina Reitz-Joosse
  • Thessaly as an Intertextual Landscape of Civil War in Latin Poetry /
  • Annemarie Ambühl
  • Migration and Landscapes of Value in Attica /
  • Danielle L. Kellogg
  • Songs of Homecoming: Sites of Victories and Celebrations in Pindar's Victory Odes /
  • Maša Ćulumović
  • The Mythical Landscapers of Augustan Rome /
  • Lissa Crofton-Sleigh
  • Polyvalent Tomi: Ovid's Landscape of Relegation and the Romanization of the Black Sea Region /
  • Christoph Pieper
  • Stones, Names, Stories, and Bodies: Pausanias before the Walls of Seven-Gated Thebes /
  • Greta Hawes
  • Indexes /
  • Jeremy McInerney and Ineke Sluiter.