Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity: Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces

ISBN-13: 9781138104952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 306 str.

Debbie Felton

Opis

Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical and social.

Spis treści

Introduction: dread and the landscape; Part I Evoking dread in early Greek literature: Homer and tragedy;  1. Abject landscapes of the Iliad, William Brockliss; 2. Limits of dread: ἐσχατιά, πεῖραρ, and dangerous edge-space in Homeric formulae. Chloe Bray;  3. Home and away: the importance of suicide location in Sophocles’ Ajax, Bridget Martin; 4. Dreamscape and dread in Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians, Melissa Mueller; Part II Anxiety and dread in the Roman literary landscape; 5. Living in fear: affect and dwelling space in Horace’s Roman Odes, Adrian Gramps; 6. Saeva quies and Lucan’s landscapes of anxiety, Laura Zientek; 7. Wily wetlands: imperialism and resistance in Tacitus’s Batavian revolt, Leen Van Broeck; Part III Dread of the preternatural in classical literature; 8. Dragonscapes and dread, Daniel Ogden; 9. The liminal space: suburbs as a demonic domain in classical literature, Julia Doroszewska; 10. Dread of daimones in (ancient) urban spaces, Debbie Felton; 11. Haunted minds, haunted places: topographies of insanity in Greek and Roman paradoxography, George Kazantzidis; 12. Dread in the dark? From modern fiction to classical antiquity, Mercedes Aguirre; Part IV Epilogue: the afterlife of dreadful antiquity; 13. Detroit and the classical sublime, or, in Defense of "ruin porn", Jesse Weiner with Terressa A. Benz; Index

O autorze

Debbie Felton is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States, and the author of Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity (1999). She has published widely on folklore in classical literature. Her current research projects include a book on serial killers in the ancient world and a monograph on the Cyclops. She has been the editor of the journal Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural since February 2015.