From the end of the twentieth century onwards space has become a ‘hot topic’ in literary studies. This thesis contributes to the spatial turn by focusing on space in archaic Greek lyric (7th–5th c bc).
Jo Heirman was educated at Ghent University (Belgium), where he obtained a Master’s Degree in Classics in 2008. In 2008 he was appointed as a PhD-researcher for a project of Irene de Jong on ‘Space in Ancient Greek Literature’ at the University of Amsterdam. He has written several articles on space which combine classics and literary theory. By the end of 2012 he will have edited a conference volume on the ideological role of space in ancient and modern literature with Jacqueline Klooster (The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literature: Ancient and Modern, Academia Press Ghent).
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Space in archaic Greek Lyric: City, Countryside and sea - 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - 8 TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS, ABBREVIATIONS - 12 TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS - 12 ABBREVIATIONS - 13 INTRODUCING SPACE IN LYRIC - 14 1. A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF SPACE - 18 2. THE CITY - 40 3. THE COUNTRYSIDE - 76 4. THE SEA - 116 5. CONCLUSION - 176 EPILOGUE: THE SYMBOLISM OF SPACE AND THE SYMPOSIUM - 178 BIBLIOGRAPHY - 184 INDEX OF PASSAGES - 218 SUMMARY - 220 SAMENVATTING - 224
