City, countryside, and the spatial organization of value in classical antiquity / edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Description
x, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • City-country relationships in the 'normal polis' / John Bintliff
    • On the border: sacred land and the margins of the community / Jeremy McInerney
    • Lack of boundaries, absence of oppositions: the city-countryside continuum of a Greek pantheon / Irene Polinskaya
    • Farming, authority, and truth-telling in the Greek tradition / Sheila Murnaghan
    • Herodotus on survival: city or countryside? / Angus Bowie
    • At home, round here, out there: the city and tragic space / D.M. Carter
    • The wall in Aristophanes' birds / Jennifer Clarke Kosak
    • Agroikia and pleasure in Aristotle / Helen Cullyer
    • Comic aischrology and the urbanization of agroikia / Ralph M. Rosen
    • Horace's garden thoughts: rural retreats and the urban imagination / Diana Spencer
    • Dido in her settings: carthage and environs / Rachel Hall Sternberg
    • City and countryside in Vergil's ecologues / Mathilde Skoie
    • Matial between Rome and Bilbilis / Elena Merli
    • The bearded rustic of Roman Attica / Celina L. Gray.
    ISBN
    • 9789004150430 ((hd. bd.))
    • 9004150439 ((hd. bd.))
    LCCN
    2006287255
    OCLC
    76686263
    International Article Number
    • 9789004150430
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