Imagining Empire (eBook)

Political Space in Hellenistic and Roman Literature

Victoria Rimell, Markus Asper (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
264 Seiten
Universitätsverlag Winter
978-3-8253-7730-4 (ISBN)

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This volume investigates space in Greek and Latin literature as a real and imaginary dimension in which social relations, identities, power and knowledge are materialized, represented and (re)performed. The twelve contributors focus on Hellenistic Alexandria and late Republican to early Imperial Rome, yet the essays range from Greece, Egypt, and Italy to the Black Sea, Asia, and North Africa, taking in Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Caesar, Sallust, Cicero, Virgil, Statius, and Juvenal along the way. As well as offering innovative interpretations of key texts from the third century BCE to the second century CE, the volume attempts to respond critically and imaginatively to the still-burgeoning body of work on space across the humanities in the wake of post-colonialist and poststructuralist thinking, and considers its potentially challenging implications for Classics as an evolving field of study.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Titel 4
Imprint 5
Table of Contents 6
Introduction: VICTORIA RIMELL: You Are Here: Encounters in Imperial Space 12
SUSAN STEPHENS: The Geopolitics of Imagining Ancient Alexandria 22
BENJAMIN ACOSTA-HUGHES: The Homeric Shore of Alexandria: A Narrative of a Culture in Motion 34
WILLIAM G. THALMANN: Space and the Imperial Imaginary in Apollonius’ "Argonautika" 66
MARKUS ASPER: Imagining Political Space: Some Patterns 74
INGO GILDENHARD: Space and Spin: Geopolitical Vistas in the 40s 86
THERESE FUHRER: ‘Leave the City, Catiline!’ – Sallust on Imperial Space and Outlawing 110
ULRICH SCHMITZER: Mapping Foundations: The Italian Network of City Foundations in the Poetic and Antiquarian Tradition 122
ELENA GIUSTI: Virgil’s Carthage: A Heterotopic Space of Empire 144
ALESSANDRO BARCHIESI: Colonial Readings in Virgilian Geopoetics: The Trojans at Buthrotum 162
ALEXANDER KIRICHENKO: "Beatus carcer / tristis harena": The Spaces of Statius’ "Silvae" 178
TOM GEUE: Free-Range, Organic, Locally-Sourced Satire: Juvenal Goes Global 200
Abbreviations???????????????????????????????????????? 228
Bibliography Cited?????????????????????????????????????????????????? 230
Index locorum???????????????????????????????????????? 250
Index rerum nominumque?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 262
Backcover 276

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.5.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 3-8253-7730-X / 382537730X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8253-7730-4 / 9783825377304