City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity

398 Pages·2006·3.06 MB·English

by  Ineke Sluiter

CITY, COUNTRYSIDE, AND
THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF VALUE
IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
MNEMOSYNE
BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA
COLLEGERUNT
H. PINKSTER •H.S. VERSNEL
I.J.F. DE JONG •P.H. SCHRIJVERS
BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT
H. PINKSTER, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, SPUISTRAAT 134, AMSTERDAM
SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM SEPTUAGESIMUM NONUM
RALPH M. ROSEN AND INEKE SLUITER
CITY, COUNTRYSIDE, AND
THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF VALUE
IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
CITY, COUNTRYSIDE, AND
THE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION
OF VALUE IN CLASSICAL
ANTIQUITY
EDITED BY
RALPH M. ROSEN AND INEKE SLUITER
LEIDEN•BOSTON
2006
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ISSN 0169-8958
ISBN-13:978-90-04-15043-0
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors .................................................................... ix
Chapter 1 Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen, General
Introduction ............................................................................ 1
Chapter 2 John Bintliff, City-Country Relationships in the
‘Normal Polis’ ........................................................................ 13
Chapter 3 Jeremy McInerney, On the Border: Sacred
Land and the Margins of the Community .......................... 33
Chapter 4 Irene Polinskaya, Lack of Boundaries, Absence
of Oppositions: The City-Countryside Continuum of a
Greek Pantheon ...................................................................... 61
Chapter 5 Sheila Murnaghan, Farming, Authority, and
Truth-Telling in the Greek Tradition .................................. 93
Chapter 6 Angus Bowie, Herodotus on Survival: City or
Countryside? .......................................................................... 119
Chapter 7 D.M. Carter, At Home, Round Here, Out
There: The City and Tragic Space .................................... 139
Chapter 8 Jennifer Clarke Kosak, The Wall in
Aristophanes’ Birds .................................................................. 173
Chapter 9 Helen Cullyer, Agroikia and Pleasure in
Aristotle .................................................................................. 181
Chapter 10 Ralph M. Rosen, Comic Aischrology and the
Urbanization of Agroikia ........................................................ 219
Chapter 11 Diana Spencer, Horace’s Garden Thoughts:
Rural Retreats and the Urban Imagination ........................ 239
Chapter 12 Rachel Hall Sternberg, Dido in her Settings:
Carthage and Environs .......................................................... 275
Chapter 13 Mathilde Skoie, City and Countryside in
Vergil’s Eclogues ...................................................................... 297
Chapter 14 Elena Merli, Martial Between Rome and
Bilbilis ...................................................................................... 327
Chapter 15 Celina L. Gray, The Bearded Rustic of
Roman Attica ........................................................................ 349
viii contents
Index of Greek Terms .............................................................. 369
Index of Latin Terms ................................................................ 371
Index Locorum .......................................................................... 372
General Index ............................................................................ 380
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
John Bintliff is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Leiden University.
Angus Bowie is Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at
The Queen’s College, Oxford.
D.M. Carter is Lecturer in Greek at the University of Reading.
Jennifer Clarke Kosak is Associate Professor of Classics at Bowdoin
College.
Helen Cullyer is Assistant Professor in Classics at the University
of Pittsburgh.
Celina L. Gray is Assistant Professor in Classics at Wesleyan
University.
Rachel Hall Sternberg is Jesse Hauk Shera Assistant Professor in
Classics at Case Western Reserve University.
Jeremy McInerney is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Elena Merli is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Freie Universität,Berlin.
Sheila Murnaghan is Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of
Greek at the University of Pennsylvania.
Irene Polinskaya is Assistant Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College.
Ralph M. Rosen is Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of Classical
Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mathilde Skoie is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bergen
(Department of Classics, Russian, and the History of Religions).