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The Folds of Olympus : Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture /
A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquityThe mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Gre...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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| 100 | 1 | |a König, Jason, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Folds of Olympus : |b Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture / |c Jason König. |
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| 500 | |a Mountains and Identity | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Map -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Mountains and the Divine -- 1. Summit Altars -- Divine Presence and Human Culture -- Memory and Embodied Experience -- Mediterranean Mountain Religion -- The Summit Altars of Mainland Greece -- 2. Mountains in Archaic Greek Poetry -- The Homeric Hymns -- Hesiod and the Muses on Mount Helikon -- Mount Olympus and Mount Ida in the Iliad -- Mountain Similes: Natural Force and Human Vulnerability -- Mountain Similes: Divine Vision and the Sublime -- 3. Pausanias: Mythical Landscapes and Divine Presence | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Euripides to Pausanias -- Arkadia -- Boiotia -- Phokis -- 4. Egeria on Mount Sinai: Mountain Pilgrimage in Early Christian and Late Antique Culture -- Biblical Mountains -- Mountain Allegories in the Writings of the Emperor Julian -- Mountain Pilgrimage -- Egeria on Mount Sinai -- Egeria and the History of Travel and Mountaineering -- Egeria on Mount Nebo -- Part II. Mountain Vision -- 5. Mountain Aesthetics -- Mountains as Objects of Vision -- Aesthetic Categories and the Classical Tradition -- Beautiful Mountains -- Ancient Mountains and the Sublime | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 6. Scientific Viewing and the Volcanic Sublime -- Volcanic Knowledge and Human Vulnerability -- Observing Etna -- The Pseudo-Virgilian Aetna and the Language of Vision -- Literary Ambition and Philosophical Virtue: Etna in Seneca's Letters -- 7. Mountains in Greek and Roman Art -- Miniaturised Mountains -- Mountains in Roman Wall Painting -- Enigmatic Mountains -- 8. Mountain Landmarks in Latin Literature -- Mountain Symbolism -- Mountains in Latin Epic -- Mountains and Gender in Ovid and Seneca -- Mountains in Horace's Odes -- 9. Mountains and Bodies in Apuleius' Metamorphoses | |
| 505 | 0 | |a A Stage-Set of Mount Ida -- Rhetorical and Symbolic Mountains in the Metamorphoses -- Mountain Terrain and Haptic Experience -- Landscapes of the Goddess Isis -- Part III. Mountain Conquest -- 10. Warfare and Knowledge in Mountain Territories -- Mountains and Modernity -- Rock-Walkers: Specialist Expertise in Mountain Warfare -- Local Knowledge: Control and Resistance in Mountain Terrain -- Representing Mountain Conquest -- 11. Mountain Narratives in Greek and Roman Historiography -- Landscape Narratives -- Herodotus -- Xenophon and Arrian -- Plutarch -- Polybius | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 12. Strabo: Civilising the Mountains -- Human-Environment Relations in Strabo's Geography -- Strabo's Cartographic Perspective -- Spain and the Alps -- Italy and Greece -- Pontus -- 13. Ammianus Marcellinus: Mountain Peoples and Imperial Boundaries -- The Isaurians in the Res Gestae -- Natural-Force Metaphors -- Bodily Immersion: Mountains, Rivers, Sea -- Viewing from Above -- 'Like a Snowstorm from the High Mountains': The Huns and the Goths -- Part IV. Living in the Mountains -- 14. Mountain and City -- Mountain Communities -- Environmental History in the Mountains of the Mediterranean | |
| 520 | |a A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquityThe mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a millennium--from Homer to the early Christian saints. Aimed at readers of ancient history and literature as well as those interested in mountains and the environment, the book offers a powerful account of the landscape at the heart of much Greek and Roman culture.Jason König charts the importance of mountains in religion and pilgrimage, the aesthetic vision of mountains in art and literature, the place of mountains in conquest and warfare, and representations of mountain life. He shows how mountains were central to the way in which the inhabitants of the ancient Mediterranean understood the boundaries between the divine and the human, and the limits of human knowledge and control. He also argues that there is more continuity than normally assumed between ancient descriptions of mountains and modern accounts of the picturesque and the sublime.Offering a unique perspective on the history of classical culture, The Folds of Olympus is also a resoundingly original contribution to the literature on mountains. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Mountains in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01028388 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Classical literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00863509 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Civilization, Classical. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00862996 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Civilization, Ancient. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00862946 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Litterature ancienne |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Montagnes dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Civilisation ancienne. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Civilization, Ancient. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Civilization, Classical. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mountains |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mountains in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Classical literature |x History and criticism. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Literary criticism. |2 lcgft | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 | |
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