By Marios Skempis
By way of introducing a multifaceted method of epic geography, the editors of the amount desire to offer a serious overview of spatial notion, of its repercussions on shaping narrative in addition to of its discursive features and cultural contexts. Taking the genre-specific barriers of Greco-Roman epic poetry as a for instance, a workforce of foreign students examines matters that lie on the center of recent feedback on human geography. glossy and historical discourse on house representations revolves round the nation-shaping strength of geography, the gendered dynamics of landscapes, the topography of isolation and integration, the politics of imperialism, globalization, environmentalism in addition to the ability of language and narrative to show area into position. one of many significant goals of the amount is to teach that the area of the Classics is not only the beginning, however the essence of present debates on spatial buildings and reconstructions.
This selection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, outline, and remodel genre-specific geographical configurations. A staff of foreign students engages in an interdisciplinary dialogue approximately how Greek and Roman epic poetry interacts with the historic and cultural dynamics of geography. The booklet brings jointly the area of Classical literature with present developments in reading the politics of spatial buildings.
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This is the crux of his argument for the lack of Homeric suspense – we feel no suspense as to the fate of Odysseus while the excursus is going on because the Porter (2008) describes well how Auerbach equates Homer with surface, legend, and frivolity and the Bible with depth, history, and morality. Cf. Bassett 1938 [2003], 46. Both Austin (1966) and de Jong (1985) challenge this last point, arguing that the description of how Odysseus got his scar is seen from Eurycleia’s perspective. Scodel (2002) argues that the perspective in the digression shifts between Eurycleia and Odysseus.
As Glaucus threatens to do at Il. 154– 5. For detailed discussion of the episode, see Graziosi/Haubold 2010, 36 – 40. Ethnography in the Iliad 23 Beyond the sphere of Troy and her allies, cultural diversity increases, but not by much. A swift tour of outlying regions will illustrate the point. The Solymians of south-eastern Anatolia feature twice in Glaucus’ account of his grandfather Bellerophontes (Il. 184– 5, 204): they are particularly warlike, but otherwise seem unremarkable. The Amazons are encountered in a similar geographical context (Il.
11 Bernabé. ⁴¹ We may note, first of all, the studiously sensational nature of the description: with a mixture of fascination and horror the speaker (probably a character in the story rather than the narrator himself) dissects the people he describes, turning them into a bizarre display of limbs: eyes, soul, hands, and bowels are prized apart and laid out for inspection. 190), and indeed in later ethnographic writing. The central paradox sustaining Aristeas’ passage is the idea of a tribe that dwells not on land but in water.