Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture [Hardcover]

This collection of essays produces new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in classical Greek literature.This book is a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understandings place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. These essays demonstrate a range of theoretically sophisticated approaches to ancient historical texts.This book is a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understandings place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. These essays demonstrate a range of theoretically sophisticated approaches to ancient historical texts.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.1. Pindar's Delphi Chris Eckerman; 2. Space and landscape in Xenophon's Anabasis Tim Rood; 3. In the bedroom: interior space in Herodotus' Histories Alex Purves; 4. Ships, walls, men: classical Athens and the poetics of infrastructure Carol Dougherty; 5. Corinth, courtesans, and the politics of place Kate Gilhuly; 6. Mapping literary styles in Aristophanes' Frogs NlÓÆ