Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity

Jeremy McInerney, Ph.D. (1992, University of California, Berkeley), is Davidson Kennedy Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of The Cattle of the Sun. Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks (Princeton 2010) and recently edited A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (Wiley-Blackwell 2014).Ineke Sluiter, Ph.D. (1990, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), is Professor of Greek at Leiden University. Apart from the Penn-Leiden volumes, her most recent book is, with Rita Copeland, Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric. Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 (Oxford 2009). Contributors are: Annemarie Ambühl, Julie Baleriaux, Richard Buxton, Lissa Crofton-Sleigh, Maša Ćulumović, Greta Hawes, Rianne Hermans, Danielle L. Kellogg, Jason König, Margaret M. Miles, Elizabeth Minchin, Christoph Pieper, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Betsey A. Robinson,Christina G. Williamson, and Kathrin Winter.

"Because it collects a variety of focused studies, McInerney’s and Sluiter’s volume is able to incorporate the diversity of both landscape studies and the Classical world itself. (...) The volume includes numerous maps, photographs, and even visualizations of numerical data, all enormously helpful in supporting the arguments of the authors who employ them. Bibliographical information appends each individual contribution. An excellent editorial contribution is the variety of indices: an index of Greek terms, of Latin terms, a general index, and an index locorum. While some contributions to this volume shine more brightly than others, each essay is informative to its own topic and representative of the relevant scholarship. The volume itself is a worthy addition to the growing body of literature dedicated to landscape studies and environmental humanities within Classics." Laura Zientek, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.08.30.

• ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors 1 General Introduction Jeremy McInerney and Ineke SluiterPart 1 - Mountains2 Mount Etna in the Greco-Roman imaginaire: Culture and Liquid Fire Richard Buxton3 Strabo’s Mountains Jason König4 Mountain, Myth, and Territory: Teuthrania as Focal Point in the Landscape of Pergamon Christina G. WilliamsonPart 2 - Underground and Underworld5 Diving Underground: Giving Meaning to Subterranean Rivers Julie Baleriaux6 Experience and Stimmung: Landscapes of the Underworld in Seneca’s Plays Kathrin WinterPart 3 - The Sacred7 Birds around the Temple: Constructing a Sacred Environment Margaret M. Miles8 Juno Sospita and the draco: Myth, Image, and Ritual in the Landscape of the Alban Hills Rianne Hermans9 Charismatic Landscapes? Scenes from Central Greece under Roman Rule Betsey A. RobinsonPart 4 - Battlefields and Memory of War10 Heritage in the Landscape: The ‘Heroic Tumuli’ in the Troad Region Elizabeth Minchin11 Land at Peace and Sea at War: Landscape and the Memory of Actium in Greek Epigrams and Propertius’ElegiesBettina Reitz-Joosse12 Thessaly as an Intertextual Landscape of Civil War in Latin Poetry Annemarie AmbühlPart 5 - Moving Around13 Migration and Landscapes of Value in Attica Danielle L. Kellogg14 Songs of Homecoming: Sites of Victories and Celebrations in Pindar’s Victory Odes Maša Ćulumović15 The Mythical Landscapers of Augustan Rome Lissa Crofton-Sleigh16 Polyvalent Tomi: Ovid’s Landscape of Relegation and the Romanization of the Black Sea Region Christoph Pieper17 Stones, Names, Stories, and Bodies: Pausanias before the Walls of Seven-Gated Thebes Greta HawesIndex of Greek Terms Index of Latin Terms Index Locorum General Index