Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and
landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including
Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the
importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical and
social: how spaces are described by language, what spaces are used
for by individuals and communities, and how language, use, and the
passage of time invest spaces with meaning. In addition to this
'spatial' turn in scholarship, recent years have also seen an
'emotive' turn - an increased interest in the study of emotion in
literature. Many works on landscape in classical antiquity focus on
themes such as the sacred and the pastoral and the emotions such
spaces evoke, such as (respectively) feelings of awe or
tranquillity in settings both urban and rural. Far less scholarship
has been generated by the locus terribilis, the space associated
with negative emotions because of the bad things that happen there.
In short, the recent 'emotive' turn in humanities studies has so
far largely neglected several of the more negative emotions,
including anxiety, fear, terror, and dread. The papers in this
volume focus on those neglected negative emotions, especially dread
- and they do so while treating many types of space, including
domestic, suburban, rural and virtual, and while covering many
genres and authors, including the epic poems of Homer, Greek
tragedy, Roman poetry and historiography, medical writing,
paradoxography and the short story.
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