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Valuing landscape in classical antiquity : natural environment and cultural imagination /
'Where am I?'. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing mea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
393. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 'Where am I?'. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape' denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture. In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 495 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004319714 9004319719 9004319700 9789004319707 |