Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World -

Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World

Janet Downie, Anna Peterson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-38361-6 (ISBN)
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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. Attending to the relationship between mobility and cultural rootedness, each chapter examines how Greek writers of the imperial era constructed and represented the multi-temporal landscapes of their contemporary world.

This edited volume contributes to a growing interest in the topographical imagination of the ancient Mediterranean. The Roman Empire was a world of vast trade networks, cosmopolitan culture, and high elite mobility, making geography an essential component of the language of power and culture. Volume contributors present a composite picture of how imperial-era Greek writers constructed and curated topographies of the Greek world – urban, rural, cultic, and monumental – to tell new stories about Hellenic space and its place within the broader empire.

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.

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on Spellings and Abbreviations

Introduction: Spatial Perspectives from the Greek East by Janet Downie (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA) and Anna Peterson (Penn State University, USA)

I. Travelers in Literary Space

Chapter 1: Dio’s Moral Geography by William Hutton (College of William & Mary, USA)
Chapter 2: Cities in Situ: Landscape in the Urban Orations by N. Bryant Kirkland (University of California - Los Angeles, USA)
Chapter 3: Spatial Mnemonics in Dionysius and Pausanias by Janet Downie (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA)

II. Multitemporal Landscapes

Chapter 4: Theseus’ Imperial Topographies by R. Scott Smith (University of New Hampshire, USA), Greta Hawes (Australian National University, Australia) and Aristogenia Toumpas (Ohio State University, USA)
Chapter 5: Monuments, Memory, and Space in Imperial Greek Narratives of Alexander by Estelle Strazdins (Australian National University, Australia)
Chapter 6: Time, Space, and the Apocalypse: Greek and Egyptian Narratives of Alexandria by Robert Cioffi (Bard College, USA)

III. Human and Divine Topographies

Chapter 7: Empire, Absence, and Disbelief in Lucian’s Toxaris by Inger N. I. Kuin (University of Virginia, USA)
Chapter 8: Placial Knowledge: The Sacred Well at Pergamum and its Users by Artemis Brod (Independent Scholar, USA)
Chapter 9: Body and Time in the Dreamscapes of Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica by Kate Gilhuly (Wellesley College, USA)
Chapter 10: Writing Bodies in Space: the Attic Countryside in the Epistolary Fiction of Alciphron and Aelian by Anna Peterson (Penn State University, USA)

Envoi: Human and Environment in Imperial Greek literature by Jason König (University of St. Andrews, UK)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.2.2025
Reihe/Serie Ancient Environments
Zusatzinfo 10 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-350-38361-9 / 1350383619
ISBN-13 978-1-350-38361-6 / 9781350383616
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