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Oppian's Halieutica : Charting a Didactic Epic
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: On Fishing -- Oppian's Halieutica -- Interpretative Contexts -- Overview -- Part I Didactic Poetry -- Chapter 1 Didactic Epic -- 1.1 Poetry and Truth --...
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| Fformat: | Online Resource Llyfr |
| Iaith: | English |
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Cambridge
: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
, 2020
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| Cyfres: | Greek Culture in the Roman World Ser
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6360479 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Crynodeb: | Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: On Fishing -- Oppian's Halieutica -- Interpretative Contexts -- Overview -- Part I Didactic Poetry -- Chapter 1 Didactic Epic -- 1.1 Poetry and Truth -- 1.2 Ancient Didactic Poetry -- Chapter 2 Knowledge and Pleasure -- 2.1 Didactic Authority -- 2.2 Hesiodic Lessons -- 2.3 Education and Entertainment -- 2.4 Literary Sweetness -- Chapter 3 Mapping the Sea -- 3.1 Mortal Incapacity -- 3.2 Toil and Ease -- 3.3 Interpreting Signs -- Part II Morality at Sea -- Chapter 4 Guile -- 4.1 Odyssean Guile -- 4.2 Monstrous Tricks -- 4.3 Netting Fish -- Chapter 5 Greed -- 5.1 Greedy Bellies -- 5.2 Youthful Indolence -- 5.3 Deliberation -- 5.4 Conviviality and Patronage -- Chapter 6 Lust -- 6.1 Poetic Streams -- 6.2 Emotional Storms -- 6.3 Erotic Echoes -- 6.4 The 'Spells' of Desire -- Part III Humans and Animals -- Chapter 7 Epic Similes -- 7.1 Marine Warfare -- 7.2 Homeric Readings -- 7.3 Similes in Context -- 7.4 Victors and Victims -- Chapter 8 Analogical Animals -- 8.1 Scholiastic Debates -- 8.2 Animal Paradigms -- 8.3 Animal Omens -- 8.4 Animal Terminology -- 8.5 Catachresis -- 8.6 Land and Sea -- Chapter 9 Humans and Other Animals -- 9.1 Anthropomorphism -- 9.2 Imperial Animals -- 9.3 Blurring Boundaries -- 9.4 Talking Animals -- 9.5 Humanity and Inhumanity -- Part IV The World Is a Sea -- Chapter 10 Locating Monsters -- 10.1 Hesiodic Monsters -- 10.2 Homeric Monsters -- 10.3 Post-Homeric Traditions -- 10.4 Locating Myth -- Chapter 11 An Empire of Fish -- 11.1 Politics and Power -- 11.2 Poetic Justice -- 11.3 Imperial History -- 11.4 Empires of Knowledge -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index Locorum. Reveals the sophistication of a once-popular Greek didactic epic on the sea and its fish, addressed to the Roman emperor |
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| Disgrifiad Corfforoll: | 1 Online-Ressource (470 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108896504 |
