City, countryside, and the spatial organization of value in classical antiquity /
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 methodo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2006.
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| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
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Table of Contents:
- General introduction / Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen
- 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.