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 approachesarchaeological, 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.
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City-Country Relationships in the `Normal Polis' |
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On the Border: Sacred Land and the Margins of the Community |
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Lack of Boundaries, Absence of Oppositions: The City-Countryside Continuum of a Greek Pantheon |
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Farming, Authority, and Truth-Telling in the Greek Tradition |
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Herodotus on Survival: City or Countryside? |
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At Home, Round Here, Out There: The City and Tragic Space |
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The Wall in Aristophanes' Birds |
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Agroikia and Pleasure in Aristotle |
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Comic Aischrology and the Urbanization of Agroikia |
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Horace's Garden Thoughts: Rural Retreats and the Urban Imagination |
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Dido in her Settings: Carthage and Environs |
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City and Countryside in Vergil's Eclogues |
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Martial Between Rome and Bilbilis |
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The Bearded Rustic of Roman Attica |
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| Index of Greek Terms |
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| Index of Latin Terms |
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| Index Locorum |
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| General Index |
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Ralph M. Rosen, Ph.D. (1983) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has published extensively on Greek and Roman literature and intellectual history, including a new book Making Mockery: the Poetics of Ancient Satire (forthcoming, Oxford 2007). Ineke Sluiter, Ph.D. (1990) in Classics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is Professor of Greek at the University of Leiden. She has published widely on Greek and Roman literature, especially in the area of ancient linguistics, exegetical traditions, and intellectual history. She is currently working on a volume about grammatical and rhetorical texts of the early Middle Ages (with R. Copeland) The Reading Road (Oxford).
