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Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity (Paperback)
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Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity (Paperback)
Series: Ancient Environments
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Throughout the longue duree of Western culture, how have people
represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as
places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of
mountains changed - or stayed the same? Mountain Dialogues from
Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient
and modern engagements with mountains. It highlights the ongoing
relevance of ancient understandings of mountain environments to the
postclassical and present-day world, while also suggesting ways in
which modern approaches to landscape can generate new questions
about premodern responses. It brings together experts from across
many different disciplines and periods, offering case studies on
topics ranging from classical Greek drama to Renaissance art, and
from early modern natural philosophy to nineteenth-century travel
writing. Throughout, essays engage with key themes of temporality,
knowledge, identity, and experience in the mountain landscape. As a
whole, the volume suggests that modern responses to mountains
participate in rhetorical and experiential patterns that stretch
right back to the ancient Mediterranean. It also makes the case for
collaborative, cross-period research as a route both for
understanding human relations with the natural world in the past,
and informing them in the present.
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