Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity - Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination (Hardcover)

'Where am I?'. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape' denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture. In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Mnemosyne, Supplements, 393
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Volume editors:	Jeremy McInerney • Ineke Sluiter
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	496
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-31970-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Promotions
LSN:	90-04-31970-0
Barcode:	9789004319707

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