Imagining Empire
Political Space in Hellenistic and Roman Literature
1. Edition, 2017
264 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-7730-4
Product: Ebook
Edition: PDF
Subject: Klassische Philologie
Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Volume No.: 153
Available: 29.05.2017
Keywords:
Raumkonzepte, griechische Antike, römische Antike, Postkolonialismus, postcolonial studies, Alexandria, Geopolitik, Karthago, Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), Statius (Publius Papinius Statius), Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis)
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.
Contrib. by: Victoria Rimell, Susan Stephens, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, William G. Thalmann, Markus Asper, Ingo Gildenhard, Therese Fuhrer, Ulrich Schmitzer, Elena Giusti, Alessandro Barchiesi, Alexander Kirichenko, Tom Geue
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in: New Testament Abstracts, 62/3 (2018), 533
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