Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : König, Jason (1973-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The folds of Olympus [Texte imprimé] : mountains in ancient Greek and Roman culture / Jason König

Publication : Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, copyright 2022

Description matérielle : xxx, 444 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 25 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-417) and indexes
"A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity. The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a millennium -- from Homer to the early Christian saints. Aimed at readers of ancient history and literature as well as those interested in mountains and the environment, the book offers a powerful account of the landscape at the heart of much Greek and Roman culture, Jason König charts the importance of mountains in religion and pilgrimage, the aesthetic vision of mountains in art and literature, the place of mountains in conquest and warfare, and representations of mountain life. He shows how mountains were central to the way in which the inhabitants of the ancient Mediterranean understood the boundaries between the divine and the human, and the limits of human knowledge and control. He also argues that there is more continuity than normally assumed between ancient descriptions of mountains and modern accounts of the picturesque and the sublime. Offering a unique perspective on the history of classical culture, The Folds of Olympus is also a resoundingly original contribution to the literature on mountains."

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- Autre forme du titre : Mountains in ancient Greek and Roman culture

Sujet(s) : Montagnes -- Dans la littérature -- Antiquité  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Montagnes -- Société -- Antiquité  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Montagnes sacrées -- Antiquité  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  880.932 143 (23e éd.) = Littérature grecque classique - Histoire et critique - Thème des reliefs  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0691201293. - ISBN 9780691201290

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47078573d

Notice n° :  FRBNF47078573 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Part I: Mountains and the divine. Summit altars ; Mountains in archaic Greek poetry ; Pausanias : mythical landscapes and divine presence ; Egeria on Mount Sinai : mountain pilgrimage in early Chistian and late antique culture ; Part II: Mountain vision. Mountain aesthetics ; Scientific viewing and the volcanic sublime ; Mountains in Greek and Roman art ; Mountain landmarks in Latin literature ; Mountains and bodies in Apuleius' Metamorphoses ; Part III: Mountain conquest. Warfare and knowledge in mountain territories ; Mountain narratives in Greek and Roman historiography ; Strabo : civilising the mountains ; Ammianus Marcellinus : mountain peoples and imperial boundaries ; Part IV: Living in the mountains. Mountain and city ; Dio Chrisostom and the mountains of Euboia ; Mountain saints in late antique Christian literature ; Epilogue