Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic

di Emily Kneebone (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2022

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.

• Autore: Emily Kneebone
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 467 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 622 gr.
• EAN: 9781108744041

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