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.
Recenzijas
This book grabs hold of the spatial turn in classics and makes its mark via the fascinating thematic lens of topographia. -- Emma Greensmith, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Oxford, UK
Papildus informācija
This volume presents new readings of the representation of space in literature of the Roman imperial period, focusing specifically on Greek texts between the first and third centuries CE.
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Spatial Perspectives from the Greek East, Janet Downie
(University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA) and Anna Peterson (Penn
State University, USA)
Part One: Travelers in Literary Space
1. Dios Moral Geography, William Hutton (College of William & Mary, USA)
2. Cities in Situ: Landscape in the Urban Orations, N. Bryant Kirkland
(University of California - Los Angeles, USA)
3. Spatial Mnemonics in Dionysius and Pausanias, Janet Downie (University of
North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA)
Part Two: Multitemporal Landscapes
4. Theseus Imperial Topographies, R. Scott Smith (University of New
Hampshire, USA), Greta Hawes (Australian National University, Australia), and
Aristogenia Toumpas (Ohio State University, USA)
5. Monuments, Memory, and Space in Imperial Greek Narratives of Alexander,
Estelle Strazdins (Australian National University, Australia)
6. Time, Space, and the Apocalypse: Greek and Egyptian Narratives of
Alexandria, Robert Cioffi (Bard College, USA)
Part Three: Human and Divine Topographies
7. Empire, Absence, and Disbelief in Lucians Toxaris, Inger N. I. Kuin
(University of Virginia, USA)
8. Placial Knowledge: The Sacred Well at Pergamum and its Users, Artemis Brod
(Independent Scholar, USA)
9. Body and Time in the Dreamscapes of Artemidorus Oneirocritica, Kate
Gilhuly (Wellesley College, USA)
10. Writing Bodies in Space: the Attic Countryside in the Epistolary Fiction
of Alciphron and Aelian, Anna Peterson (Penn State University, USA)
Envoi: Human and Environment in Imperial Greek literature, Jason König
(University of St. Andrews, UK)
Bibliography
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.
