Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham)

Broschiertes Buch

Oppian's Halieutica

Beschreibung

Demonstrates the sophistication, influence, and cultural centrality of an understudied imperial Greek didactic epic. Written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epic poetry, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world.

Autor

Emily Kneebone is an Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. She works primarily on Greek literature of the Roman imperial period and has published on heroic ethics in posthomeric Greek epic, diaspora Jewish identity in Josephus' adaptation of the Hebrew Bible for a Greco-Roman audience, mortal expertise in didactic poetry, and animals in later Greek poetry and prose.

Produktdetails

• Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 467
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781108744041
• ISBN-10: 1108744044
• Artikelnr.: 63458728