City, countryside, and the spatial organization of value in classical antiquity / edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosen, Ralph Mark.

Sluiter, I. (Ineke)

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 279.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 279

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape assessment--Greece--History.

Landscape assessment.

Landscape assessment--Rome--History.

Geographical perception--Greece--History.

Geographical perception.

Geographical perception--Rome--History.

Rural-urban relations--Greece.

Rural-urban relations.

Rural-urban relations--Rome.

Landscapes in literature--History and criticism.

Landscapes in literature.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The third in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical antiquity, this volume examines the dichotomy between 'city' and 'country' in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Fourteen papers address a variety of topics on this theme, and include a variety of methodological approaches—archaeological, iconographic, literary and philosophical. The book demonstrates that, despite a common rhetoric of polarity in antiquity that tended to construct city and countryside as very distinct, oppositional categories, there was far less consistency (and far more nuance) about the ideologies felt to inhere in each.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter

GENERAL INTRODUCTION / Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen

CITY-COUNTRY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ‘NORMAL POLIS’ / John Bintliff

ON THE BORDER: SACRED LAND AND THE MARGINS OF THE COMMUNITY / Jeremy McInerney

LACK OF BOUNDARIES, ABSENCE OF OPPOSITIONS: THE CITY-COUNTRYSIDE CONTINUUM OF A GREEK PANTHEON / Irene Polinskaya

FARMING, AUTHORITY, AND TRUTH-TELLING IN THE GREEK TRADITION / Sheila Murnaghan

HERODOTUS ON SURVIVAL: CITY OR COUNTRYSIDE? / Angus Bowie

AT HOME, ROUND HERE, OUT THERE: THE CITY AND TRAGIC SPACE / D.M. Carter

THE WALL IN ARISTOPHANES’ BIRDS / Jennifer Clarke Kosak

AGROIKIA AND PLEASURE IN ARISTOTLE / Helen Cullyer

COMIC AISCHROLOGY AND THE URBANIZATION OF AGROIKIA / Ralph M. Rosen

HORACE’S GARDEN THOUGHTS: RURAL RETREATS AND THE URBAN IMAGINATION / Diana Spencer

DIDO IN HER SETTINGS: CARTHAGE AND ENVIRONS / Rachel Hall Sternberg

CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE IN VERGIL’S ECLOGUES / Mathilde Skoie

MARTIAL BETWEEN ROME AND BILBILIS / Elena Merli

THE BEARDED RUSTIC OF ROMAN ATTICA / Celina L. Gray

INDEX OF GREEK TERMS / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter

INDEX OF LATIN TERMS / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter

INDEX LOCORUM / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter

GENERAL INDEX / Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter

SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H. Schrijvers.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-39857-8

9786611398576

90-474-0918-3

OCLC:

243615481

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409182 DOI