Oppian's Halieutica : Charting a Didactic Epic Paperback / softback
by Emily (University of Nottingham) Kneebone
Part of the Greek Culture in the Roman World series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:467 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/03/2022
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- ISBN:9781108744041
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:467 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:10/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108744041
