Oppian's Halieutica : charting a didactic epic /
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | Kneebone, Emily, author. |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. ©2020 |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xi, 455 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Greek culture in the Roman world Greek culture in the Roman world. |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12449283 |
| Summary: | Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos at large, and on the lessons we can learn from fish. Using a combination of close reading and wider interpretative lenses, this book examines the literary texture and cultural relevance of the Halieutica by analysing its sophisticated refraction of earlier literary-critical theories and hexameter traditions, its commentary on human-animal relations, and its contribution to imperial Greek literary, political, and cultural debates. The book demonstrates the importance and cultural centrality of this understudied Greek didactic epic; it is written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epics, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xi, 455 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108892728 1108892728 9781108840835 9781108744041 9781108896504 1108896502 1108744044 1108840833 |
