Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World

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.

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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)