The Folds of Olympus (eBook)

Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture

Jason König (Autor)

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2022
480 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23849-4 (ISBN)

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A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquityThe mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a millenniumfrom Homer to the early Christian saints. Aimed at readers of ancient history and literature as well as those interested in mountains and the environment, the book offers a powerful account of the landscape at the heart of much Greek and Roman culture.Jason Konig charts the importance of mountains in religion and pilgrimage, the aesthetic vision of mountains in art and literature, the place of mountains in conquest and warfare, and representations of mountain life. He shows how mountains were central to the way in which the inhabitants of the ancient Mediterranean understood the boundaries between the divine and the human, and the limits of human knowledge and control. He also argues that there is more continuity than normally assumed between ancient descriptions of mountains and modern accounts of the picturesque and the sublime.Offering a unique perspective on the history of classical culture, The Folds of Olympus is also a resoundingly original contribution to the literature on mountains.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 27 b/w illus. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Academia Sinica • Actaeon • Advertising • Aelius Aristides • Aeolian Islands • Aethiopia • Aigai (Aeolis) • Alcaeus (mythology) • ancient art • Ancient Greek • ankle • Aornos • aporia • Apostrophe • Apuleius • Apulia • Arcadia • artemidorus • Athens • atreus • author • authorship • awareness • Bovillae • Caesarea • Capitoline Hill • Cave of Zeus • celts • Chronology of the universe • Cilicia • Classical Antiquity • climate change • Close-up • Culture • Culture of ancient Rome • Dalmatia • De Architectura • Dinocrates • Dionysus • elagabalus • Eleusis • environmental determinism • epithalamium • Eratosthenes • Fabius Maximus • Glen Doll • Greeks • Hagiography • Hellenica Oxyrhynchia • hellenistic greece • Hellenistic period • hephaestus • Herodotus • Hesiod • Homer • Homeric Hymns • House of the Centenary • human behavior • human body • Hylas • Immanuel • In situ • Inspection • In the Car • Isauria • Isthmus of Corinth • I Wish (manhwa) • Laestrygonians • Laity • Literature • Lochnagar • Locksley Hall • Lucretius • Lycaon (Arcadia) • Main sequence • Materialism • Modernity • moesia • Mountain • Mountaineering • mountain range • Mount Athos • Mount Etna • Mount Gerizim • Mount Horeb • Mount Lykaion • Mount Olympus • Mount Vesuvius • Munro • Muse • My Child • narrative • Observatory • Odysseus • Paphos • Parthia • Peloponnese • Peloponnese (region) • Pembrokeshire • Pentheus • performativity • Pheidippides • phenomenon • Philip II of Macedon • Philostratus • plateau • Plutarch • Poetry • Polybius • polyphemus • Polytheism • Priene • Sacheverell Sitwell • Saint Catherine's Monastery • Samos • Samothrace • satrap • Satyricon • Scottish Highlands • semicolon • Severus Alexander • simile • Sinai Peninsula • Snowdonia • Sophist • stanza • star cluster • Statue of Zeus at Olympia • Strabo • Symbolic Power • Symposium (Plato) • Symptom • Tablinum • Terracotta • The Apotheosis of Homer • Thebes, Greece • The Orators • The Shield of Achilles • Thespiae • Thessaly • Tutelary deity • Verb • Verse paragraph • vulnerability • Western Culture • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23849-9 / 0691238499
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23849-4 / 9780691238494