City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity (Mnemosyne, Supplements)

edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter

ISBN 10: 9004150439 / ISBN 13: 9789004150430

Published by Leiden : E. J. Brill, 2006

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ex-library. x, 384 pages : illustrations, maps, plans : 24 cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity (Mnemosyne, Supplements)
• Publisher: Leiden : E. J. Brill
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004150439
• ISBN 13: 9789004150430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classical Studies

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Ralph M. Rosen, Ph.D. (1983) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has published extensively on Greek and Roman literature and intellectual history, including a new book Making Mockery: the Poetics of Ancient Satire (forthcoming, Oxford 2007).
Ineke Sluiter, Ph.D. (1990) in Classics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is Professor of Greek at the University of Leiden. She has published widely on Greek and Roman literature, especially in the area of ancient linguistics, exegetical traditions, and intellectual history. She is currently working on a volume about grammatical and rhetorical texts of the early Middle Ages (with R. Copeland) The Reading Road (Oxford).