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Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World
About this book
Focusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examines the representation of space in literary, rhetorical, and mythographic texts of the period. Authors under discussion include major figures such as Dio of Prusa, Aelius Aristides, Arrian, Lucian, and Philostratus. Texts by Apollodorus, Alciphron, Aelian, Artemidorus, and Pausanias also receive attention, along with the Alexander Romance and Egyptian apocalyptic narratives. Attending to the relationship between mobility and cultural rootedness, each chapter examines how Greek writers of the imperial era constructed and represented the multi-temporal landscapes of their contemporary world. This edited volume contributes to a growing interest in the topographical imagination of the ancient Mediterranean. The Roman Empire was a world of vast trade networks, cosmopolitan culture, and high elite mobility, making geography an essential component of the language of power and culture. Volume contributors present a composite picture of how imperial-era Greek writers constructed and curated topographies of the Greek world – urban, rural, cultic, and monumental – to tell new stories about Hellenic space and its place within the broader empire.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Spatial Perspectives from the Greek East
- Part I Travelers in Literary Space
- 1 Dio’s Moral Geography
- 2 Cities in Situ: Landscape in the Urban Orations of Dio Chrysostom
- 3 Spatial Mnemonics in Dionysius and Pausanias
- Part II Multitemporal Landscapes
- 4 Theseus’ Imperial Topographies
- 5 Monuments, Memory, and Space in Imperial Greek Narratives of Alexander
- 6 Time, Space, and the Apocalypse: Greek and Egyptian Narratives of Alexandria in the Roman Imperial Period
- Part III Human and Divine Topographies
- 7 Empire, Absence, and Disbelief in LucianÂ’s Toxaris
- 8 Topographies of Touch: The Haptics of the Asclepia and the Sacred Well at Pergamum
- 9 Body and Time in the Dreamscapes of ArtemidorusÂ’ Oneirocritica
- 10 Writing Bodies in Space: The Attic Countryside in the Epistolary Fiction of Alciphron and Aelian
- Envoi: Human and Environment in Imperial Greek Literature
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Copyright