Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity: Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination

Musik: McInerney, Jeremy

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Produktbeschreibung

Valuing Landscape explores how physical environments affected the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. It demonstrates the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.

Produktdetails

• Mnemosyne, Supplements Nr.393
• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 852g
• ISBN-13: 9789004319707
• ISBN-10: 9004319700
• Artikelnr.: 44608907

Autorenporträt

Jeremy McInerney, Ph.D. (1992, University of California, Berkeley), is Davidson Kennedy Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of The Cattle of the Sun. Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks (Princeton 2010) and recently edited A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (Wiley-Blackwell 2014). Ineke Sluiter, Ph.D. (1990, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), is Professor of Greek at Leiden University. Apart from the Penn-Leiden volumes, her most recent book is, with Rita Copeland, Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric. Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 (Oxford 2009). Contributors are: Annemarie Ambühl, Julie Baleriaux, Richard Buxton, Lissa Crofton-Sleigh, Masa Ćulumovic, Greta Hawes, Rianne Hermans, Danielle L. Kellogg, Jason König, Margaret M. Miles, Elizabeth Minchin, Christoph Pieper, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Betsey A. Robinson, Christina G. Williamson, and Kathrin Winter.