Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Landscape and place are currently important topics in the study of classical literature. This volume examines how ancient Greeks of the archaic and classical period used geography in literary contexts, and how the representation of place in texts can be linked to contemporary social practices. The contributors explore how the Greeks related to the spaces and places around them and how they invested these places with meaning. They use examples from key texts in ancient Greek literature and treat a variety of textual places, from the intimate to the expansive, including the bedroom, ritual space, law courts, theatrical space, the city, and the landscape of war. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the important relationships -such as body and place, landscape and identity, ritual and space - that emerge from close analysis of the texts.

Author: Kate Gilhuly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/22/2014
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781107042124

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2015 pg. 1141

About the Author
Gilhuly, Kate: - Kate Gilhuly is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College. She is author of The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2009). She began her research on cultural geography while a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She has published articles on the erotic geography of ancient Greece and is currently at work on a book on this topic.Worman, Nancy: - Nancy Worman is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance, and the body in ancient Greek literature and culture and is currently completing a book on landscape aesthetics in ancient literary theory and criticism as well as co-editing, with Joy Connolly, the Oxford Handbook of Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism.