The epic journey in Greek and Roman literature

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The epic journey in Greek and Roman literature

edited for the Department of Classics by Thomas Biggs, Jessica Blum

(Yale classical studies, v. 39)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-313) and indexes

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内容説明

This volume explores journeys across time and space in Greek and Latin literature, taking as its starting point the paradigm of travel offered by the epic genre. The epic journey is central to the dynamics of classical literature, offering a powerful lens through which characters, authors, and readers experience their real and imaginary worlds. The journey informs questions of identity formation, narrative development, historical emplotment, and constructions of heroism - topics that move through and beyond the story itself. The act of moving to and from 'home' - both a fixed point of spatial orientation and a transportable set of cultural values - thus represents a physical journey and an intellectual process. In exploring its many manifestations, the chapters in this collection reconceive the centrality of the epic journey across a wide variety of genres and historical contexts, from Homer to the moon.

目次

  • 1. Introduction Thomas Biggs and Jessica Blum
  • Part I. Odyssean Journeys: 2. In and out of the Golden Age - a Hesiodic reading of the Odyssey Egbert J. Bakker
  • 3. Pompe in the Odyssey Alexander C. Loney
  • 4. 'What country, friends, is this?' Geography and exemplarity in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica Jessica Blum
  • Part II. Gendered Maps: 5. Wandering, love and home in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica and Heliodorus' Aethiopica Silvia Montiglio
  • 6. Heroes and homemakers in Xenophon Emily Baragwanath
  • 7. Women's travels in the Aeneid Alison Keith
  • Part III. Rome's Journey - Construction of Rome through Travel: 8. Epic journeys on an urban scale - movement and travel in Virgil's Aeneid Timothy M. O'Sullivan
  • 9. Roman and Carthaginian journeys - Punic Pietas in Naevius' Bellum Punicum and Plautus' Poenulus Thomas Biggs
  • 10. Defining home, defining Rome - Germanicus' Eastern tour Cynthia Damon and Elizabeth Palazzolo
  • 11. Odyssean wanderings and Greek responses to Roman Empire Andrew C. Johnston
  • Part IV. Unearthly Journeys: 12. From Rome to the Moon - Rutilius Namatianus and the Late antique game of knowledge Martin Devecka 13. Looking back in wonder - contemplating Homer from the Iliad to Pale Blue Dot Karen ni Mheallaigh.

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