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Space and time in ancient Greek narrative /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Space and time in ancient Greek narrative // Alex C. Purves.
remainder title:	Space & Time in Ancient Greek Narrative
Author:	Purves, Alex C.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Geography in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511750731
ISBN:	9780511750731 (ebook)

Space and time in ancient Greek narrative /
Purves, Alex C.,1972-

Space and time in ancient Greek narrative /Space & Time in Ancient Greek NarrativeAlex C. Purves. - 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : the perfect surveyor -- The eusynoptic Iliad : visualizing space and movement in the poem -- Paths and measures : epic space and the Odyssey -- The world in the hand : Anaximander, Pherecydes, and the invention of cartography -- Map and narrative : Herodotus's histories -- Losing the way home : Xenophon's Anabasis -- Finding (things at) home : Xenophon's Oeconomicus.

In this wide-ranging survey of ancient Greek narrative from archaic epic to classical prose, Alex Purves shows how stories unfold in space as well as in time. She traces a shift in authorial perspective, from a godlike overview to the more focused outlook of human beings caught up in a developing plot, inspired by advances in cartography, travel, and geometry. Her analysis of the temporal and spatial dimensions of ancient narrative leads to new interpretations of important texts by Homer, Herodotus, and Xenophon, among others, showing previously unnoticed connections between epic and prose. Drawing on the methods of classical philology, narrative theory, and cultural geography, Purves recovers a poetics of spatial representation that lies at the core of the Greeks' conception of their plots.

ISBN: 9780511750731 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799100
Geography in literature.

LC Class. No.: PA3015.G44 / P87 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 880.9/32

Space and time in ancient Greek narrative /
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