Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 444 Seiten)
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Illustrationen ,Karten
ISBN:
9780691238494
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Map -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Mountains and the Divine -- 1. Summit Altars -- Divine Presence and Human Culture -- Memory and Embodied Experience -- Mediterranean Mountain Religion -- The Summit Altars of Mainland Greece -- 2. Mountains in Archaic Greek Poetry -- The Homeric Hymns -- Hesiod and the Muses on Mount Helikon -- Mount Olympus and Mount Ida in the Iliad -- Mountain Similes: Natural Force and Human Vulnerability -- Mountain Similes: Divine Vision and the Sublime -- 3. Pausanias: Mythical Landscapes and Divine Presence -- Euripides to Pausanias -- Arkadia -- Boiotia -- Phokis -- 4. Egeria on Mount Sinai: Mountain Pilgrimage in Early Christian and Late Antique Culture -- Biblical Mountains -- Mountain Allegories in the Writings of the Emperor Julian -- Mountain Pilgrimage -- Egeria on Mount Sinai -- Egeria and the History of Travel and Mountaineering -- Egeria on Mount Nebo -- Part II. Mountain Vision -- 5. Mountain Aesthetics -- Mountains as Objects of Vision -- Aesthetic Categories and the Classical Tradition -- Beautiful Mountains -- Ancient Mountains and the Sublime -- 6. Scientific Viewing and the Volcanic Sublime -- Volcanic Knowledge and Human Vulnerability -- Observing Etna -- The Pseudo-Virgilian Aetna and the Language of Vision -- Literary Ambition and Philosophical Virtue: Etna in Seneca's Letters -- 7. Mountains in Greek and Roman Art -- Miniaturised Mountains -- Mountains in Roman Wall Painting -- Enigmatic Mountains -- 8. Mountain Landmarks in Latin Literature -- Mountain Symbolism -- Mountains in Latin Epic -- Mountains and Gender in Ovid and Seneca -- Mountains in Horace's Odes -- 9. Mountains and Bodies in Apuleius' Metamorphoses -- A Stage-Set of Mount Ida -- Rhetorical and Symbolic Mountains in the Metamorphoses -- Mountain Terrain and Haptic Experience.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691201290
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe König, Jason, 1973 - The folds of Olympus Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780691201290
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Griechenland
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Römisches Reich
;
Berg
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Kultur
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Geschichte
