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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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