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’ OPPIAN S HALIEUTICA Oppian’s Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates ontheplaceofhumanbeingswithinthecosmosatlarge,andonthe lessonswecanlearnfromfish.Usingacombinationofclosereading and wider interpretative lenses, this book examines the literary tex- ture and cultural relevance of the Halieutica by analysing its sophis- ticated refraction of earlier literary-critical theories and hexameter traditions, its commentary on human–animal relations, and its con- tribution to imperial Greek literary, political, and cultural debates. Thebookdemonstratestheimportanceandculturalcentralityofthis understudied Greek didactic epic; it is written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancientnovel),ancientheroicanddidacticepics,andthoseinterested inhuman–animalrelations inthe ancient world. isAssistantProfessorofAncientGreekLiterature in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on Greek literature of the Romanimperialperiod. Series Editors ś ,University ofOxford ,University of Cambridge u¨, University ofOxford , King’s College London FoundingEditors . ś TheGreekcultureoftheRomanEmpireoffersarichfieldofstudy.Extraordinary insights can be gained into processes of multicultural contact and exchange, politicalandideologicalconflict,andthecreativityofachanging,polyglotempire. Duringthisperiod,manyfundamentalelementsofWesternsocietywerebeingset in place: from the rise of Christianity, to an influential system of education, to long-livedartisticcanons.ThisseriesisthefirsttofocusontheresponseofGreek culture to its Roman imperial setting as a significant phenomenon in its own right. To this end, it will publish original and innovative research in the art, archaeology,epigraphy,history,philosophy,religion,andliteratureoftheempire, with an emphasison Greek material. Recent titlesintheseries: The Resurrection of Homer inImperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica and the Poetics ofImpersonation Emma Greensmith Oppian’sHalieutica:Charting a Didactic Epic Emily Kneebone Greek Epigram and ByzantineCulture:Gender,Desire,and Denial in the Age ofJustinian Steven D. Smith Painting, Ethics, and AestheticsinRome Nathaniel B. Jones Dionysius ofHalicarnassus and AugustanRome:Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography Richard Hunter and Casper C. deJonge Author and Audiencein Vitruvius’ De Architectura Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols Visual Styleand Constructing Identity in the HellenisticWorld:Nemrud Dağ and Commageneunder Antiochos I Miguel John Versluys Greek Mythsin Roman Artand Culture: Imagery, Values andIdentity in Italy, BC–AD Zahra Newby ’ OPPIAN S HALIEUTICA Charting a Didactic Epic EMILY KNEEBONE UniversityofNottingham UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,thFloor,NewYork,,USA WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,,Australia –,rdFloor,Plot,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–,India AnsonRoad,#–/,Singapore CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/ :./ ©EmilyKneebone Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData :Kneebone,Emily,author. :Oppian’sHalieutica:chartingadidacticepic/EmilyKneebone,UniversityofNottingham. Othertitles:GreekcultureintheRomanworld. :Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,.| Series:GreekcultureintheRomanworld|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. :(print)|(ebook)| (hardback)|(paperback)|(epub) ::Oppian,activendcentury.Halieutica.|Didacticpoetry,Greek–Historyand criticism.|Fishesinliterature.|Fishinginliterature.|Human-animalrelationshipsinliterature. :.(print)|.(ebook)| /.–dc LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/ ----Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. The world is a Sea in many respects and assimilations ... It is a Sea, if we consider the Inhabitants. In the Sea, the greater fish devoure the lesse; and so doe the men of this world too. John Donne, sermon preached at The Hague ( December ) Thereisn’t any symbolism. The sea isthe sea. The old man is an oldman.Theboyisaboyandthefishisafish.Thesharksareall sharks nobetter andnoworse.All the symbolismthatpeople say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. A writer should always know too much. Ernest Hemingway, letter to Bernard Berenson on The Old Man and the Sea ( September )
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