Title City, countryside, and the spatial organization of value in classical antiquity / edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 384 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 279 Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 279. Contents Cover -- Contents -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen 1. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO CITY-COUNTRY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE 8216;NORMAL POLIS8217; -- John Bintliff -- CHAPTER THREE ON THE BORDER: SACRED LAND AND THE MARGINS OF THE COMMUNITY -- Jeremy McInerney -- CHAPTER FOUR LACK OF BOUNDARIES, ABSENCE OF OPPOSITIONS: THE CITY-COUNTRYSIDE CONTINUUM OF A GREEK PANTHEON -- Irene Polinskaya -- CHAPTER FIVE FARMING, AUTHORITY, AND TRUTH-TELLING IN THE GREEK TRADITION -- Sheila Murnaghan -- CHAPTER SIX HERODOTUS ON SURVIVAL: CITY OR COUNTRYSIDE? -- Angus Bowie -- CHAPTER SEVEN AT HOME, ROUND HERE, OUT THERE: THE CITY AND TRAGIC SPACE -- D.M. Carter -- CHAPTER EIGHT THE WALL IN ARISTOPHANES8217; BIRDS -- Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- CHAPTER NINE AGROIKIA AND PLEASURE IN ARISTOTLE -- Helen Cullyer -- CHAPTER TEN COMIC AISCHROLOGY AND THE URBANIZATION OF AGROIKIA -- Ralph M. Rosen -- CHAPTER ELEVEN HORACE8217;S GARDEN THOUGHTS: RURAL RETREATS AND THE URBAN IMAGINATION -- Diana Spencer -- CHAPTER TWELVE DIDO IN HER SETTINGS: CARTHAGE AND ENVIRONS -- Rachel Hall Sternberg -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE IN VERGIL8217;S ECLOGUES -- Mathilde Skoie -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN MARTIAL BETWEEN ROME AND BILBILIS -- Elena Merli -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE BEARDED RUSTIC OF ROMAN ATTICA -- Celina L. Gray -- I INDEX OF GREEK TERMS -- II INDEX OF LATIN TERMS -- III INDEX LOCORUM -- IV GENERAL INDEX Summary 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 methodological approaches - archaeological, iconographic, literary and philosophical. The book demonstrates that, despite a common rhetoric of polarity in antiquity that tended to construct city and countryside as very distinct, oppositional categories, there was far less consistency (and far more nuance) about the ideologies felt to inhere in each Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Landscape assessment -- Greece -- History Landscape assessment -- Rome -- History Geographical perception -- Greece -- History Geographical perception -- Rome -- History Rural-urban relations -- Greece Rural-urban relations -- Rome Landscapes in literature -- History and criticism Classical literature -- History and criticism NATURE -- Natural Resources. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business. Classical literature Geographical perception Landscape assessment Landscapes in literature Rural-urban relations Stadtleben Landleben Sozialraum Wertethik Antike Stadt Ländlicher Raum Stad en platteland. Waarden. Klassieke oudheid. Landscape assessment -- Greece -- History. Landscape assessment -- Rome -- History. Geographical perception -- Greece -- History. Geographical perception -- Rome -- History. Rural-urban relations -- Greece. Rural-urban relations -- Rome. Landscapes in literature -- History and criticism. Classical literature -- History and criticism. Greece Rome (Empire) Griechenland Altertum Römisches Reich Leiden <2004> Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Rosen, Ralph Mark. Sluiter, I. (Ineke) ISBN 9789047409182 9047409183 1281398578 9781281398574 9004150439 9789004150430 9786611398576 6611398570

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