Dionysius Periegetes (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
596
Utgivningsdatum
2014-03-13
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Illustratör/Fotograf
6 maps
Illustrationer
6 maps
Dimensioner
236 x 157 x 41 mm
Vikt
1044 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
,
ISBN
9780199675586

Dionysius Periegetes

Description of the Known World With Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2014-03-13
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A detailed study of a geographical poem by Dionysius, a scholar-poet who flourished in Alexandria. The introductory essays discuss the poem's place in the literary context of ancient geography, focusing on its language, style, and metre, and the commentary is supported by a fresh edition and English translation.
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James Romm, The Times Literary Supplement Lightfoot has given us a new edition aimed at those "others", that is, at readers and scholars of poetry ... with an extensive introduction and commentary , making it clear throughout that she take the Periegesis seriously as a work of literature, not merely an artfact of geographic history.

Robert J. Mayhew, Journal of Historical Geography for those interested in the traditions of ancient geography, this is an invaluable volume

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J. L. Lightfoot has been Fellow and Tutor in Classics at New College, Oxford, since 2003, where she teaches and lectures on all areas of Greek literature. This is her fourth major publication with Oxford University Press.

Innehållsförteckning

PREFACE ; LIST OF MAPS ; NOTE TO READER ; ABBREVIATIONS ; PART ONE: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Preliminaries ; 2. Sources ; 3. Language ; 4. Didactic ; 5. Geopoetics ; 6. The End of the Journey ; PART TWO: TEXT AND COMMENTARY ; Edition ; Commentary ; APPENDIX 1 ; Register of echoes and allusions ; APPENDIX 2 ; The structure of the Periegesis ; BIBLIOGRAPHY