Cosmography and the idea of Hyperborea in ancient Greece: a philology of worlds

"Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows H...

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1. VerfasserIn: Gagné, Renaud 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch/Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Port Melbourne, VIC New Delhi, India Singapore Cambridge University Press 2021
In:Jahr: 2021
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Cambridge classical studies
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Kosmografie / Hyperboreer / Griechenland (Altertum)
weitere Schlagwörter:B Greek literature History and criticism
B HISTORY / Ancient / General
B Cosmography in literature
B Hyperboreans (Greek mythology)
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Parallele Ausgabe:Elektronisch
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Zusammenfassung:"Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds slowly"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1108833233
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781108973755