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Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity

by Dawn Hollis
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781350194106
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 31.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 381 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / General, Ancient & Classical, and Archaeology

Throughout the longue dureé of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed - or stayed the same?

Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient and modern engagements with mountains. It highlights the ongoing relevance of ancient understandings of mountain environments to the postclassical and present-day world, while also suggesting ways in which modern approaches to landscape can generate new questions about premodern responses. It brings together experts from across many different disciplines and periods, offering case studies on topics ranging from classical Greek drama to Renaissance art, and from early modern natural philosophy to nineteenth-century travel writing. Throughout, essays engage with key themes of temporality, knowledge, identity, and experience in the mountain landscape.

As a whole, the volume suggests that modern responses to mountains participate in rhetorical and experiential patterns that stretch right back to the ancient Mediterranean. It also makes the case for collaborative, cross-period research as a route both for understanding human relations with the natural world in the past, and informing them in the present.

Eidinow, Esther: - Esther Eidinow is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a series editor for the Bloomsbury series Ancient Environments, and, among many other publications, is author of Luck, Fate, and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy (Bloomsbury 2011) and co-editor of Ancient Divination and Experience (2019).

Hollis, Dawn: - Dawn Hollis is Leverhulme Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK.

König, Jason: - Jason König is Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews, UK. His publications include Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire (2005) and Ordering Knowledge in the Roman World (jointly edited with Tim Whitmarsh) (2007).

Lorenz, Katharina: - Katharina Lorenz is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Giessen, Germany. She is a series editor for the Bloomsbury series Ancient Environments, and, among many other publications, is author of Bilder machen Räume (2008) and Mythogical Images and their Interpretation (2016).

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