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

Rosen, Ralph Mark; Sluiter, Ineke (ed.)

ISBN 10: 9004150439 / ISBN 13: 9789004150430

Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, 2006., 2006

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Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, X, 384 pp., with a few b/w-illustrations in the text, a well preserved copy. [MnS - Mnemosyne Supplements; 279]. - ISBN: 9789004150430. - Contents/Inhalt : 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 ecologues / Mathilde Skoie -- Matial between Rome and Bilbilis / Elena Merli -- The bearded rustic of Roman Attica / Celina L. Gray. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ||| Rural-urban relations Greece; Rural-urban relations Rome; Classical literature History and criticism - Beziehungen zwischen Land und Stadt Griechenland; Land-Stadt-Beziehungen Rom; Klassische Literatur Geschichte und Kritik - [00B | SOD | oR ] 860 g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: City, countryside, and the spatial organization of value in classical antiquity. Edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, 2006.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004150439
• ISBN 13: 9789004150430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 860 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • ANTIKE - Classical Antiquity - Mnemosyne Supple...

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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).