Space and time in ancient Greek narrative / Alex C. Purves.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xi, 273 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521190985 (hardback)
  • 0521190983 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 880.9/32 22
LOC classification:
  • PA3015.G44 P87 2010
Contents:
Introduction : the perfect surveyor -- The eusynoptic Iliad : visualizing space and movement in the poem -- Paths and measures : epic space and the Odyssey -- The world in the hand : Anaximander, Pherecydes, and the invention of cartography -- Map and narrative : Herodotus's histories -- Losing the way home : Xenophon's Anabasis -- Finding (things at) home : Xenophon's Oeconomicus.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : the perfect surveyor -- The eusynoptic Iliad : visualizing space and movement in the poem -- Paths and measures : epic space and the Odyssey -- The world in the hand : Anaximander, Pherecydes, and the invention of cartography -- Map and narrative : Herodotus's histories -- Losing the way home : Xenophon's Anabasis -- Finding (things at) home : Xenophon's Oeconomicus.

Includes passages in Greek with English translations.

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