Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece - Gagne, Renaud (University of Cambridge)
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Wherever the idea of a world appears, there is an expression of cosmography. Cosmography, here, is defined as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. This book pursues an anthropological and literary trajectory through ancient Greek cosmography through the diverse and strikingly rich history of Hyperborea.

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Wherever the idea of a world appears, there is an expression of cosmography. Cosmography, here, is defined as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. This book pursues an anthropological and literary trajectory through ancient Greek cosmography through the diverse and strikingly rich history of Hyperborea.
Autorenporträt
Renaud Gagné is University Reader in Ancient Greek Literature and Religion at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College. He has published Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2013); Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 2013, with Marianne Hopman); Sacrifices humains (Liège, 2013, with Pierre Bonnechere); Regimes of Comparatism (Leiden, 2018, with Simon Goldhill and Geoffrey Lloyd); Les dieux d'Homère II (Paris, 2019, with Miguel Herrero). In 2015 he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize.