"This volume presents in revised form the papers delivered at a conference entitled 'Imagining Space of Empire' which took place at Humboldt-University at Berlin in May 2013"--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and indexes.
Contents:
Index rerum nominumque. Free-range, organic, locally-sourced satire : Juvenal goes global / Introduction : You are here : encounters in imperial space / Tom Geue -- The geopolitics of imagining ancient Alexandria / Susan Stephens -- The Homeric shore of Alexandria : a narrative of a culture in motion / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Space and the imperial imaginary in Apollonius' Argonautika / William G. Thalmann -- Imagining political space : some patterns / Markus Asper -- Space and spin : geopolitical vistas in the 40s / Ingo Gildenhard -- 'Leave the city, Catiline!' : Sallust on imperial space and outlawing / Therese Fuhrer -- Mapping foundations : the Italian network of city foundations in the poetic and antiquarian tradition / Ulrich Schmitzer -- Virgil's Carthage : a heterotopic space of empire / Elena Giusti -- Colonial readings in Virgilian geopoetics : the Trojans at Buthrotum / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Beatus carcer, tristis harena : the spaces of Statius' Silvae / Alexander Kirichenko -- Free-range, organic, locally-sourced satire : Juvenal goes global / Tom Geue -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography cited -- Index locorum -- Index rerum nominumque.
Summary:
"This volume investigates space in Greek and Latin literature as a real and imaginary dimension in which social relations, identities, power and knowledge are materialized, represented and (re)performed. The twelve contributors focus on Hellenistic Alexandria and late Republican to early Imperial Rome, yet the essays range from Greece, Egypt, and Italy to the Black Sea, Asia, and North Africa, taking in Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Caesar, Sallust, Cicero, Virgil, Statius, and Juvenal along the way. As well as offering innovative interpretations of key texts from the third century BCE to the second century CE, the volume attempts to respond critically and imaginatively to the still-burgeoning body of work on space across the humanities in the wake of post-colonialist and poststructuralist thinking, and considers its potentially challenging implications for Classics as an evolving field of study."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften ; Neu Folge, 2. Reihe, Band 153
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