Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity
Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination
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Word Count
123,750 words, Guess
Page Count
495 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004319707
- ISBN-109004319700
- Library of Congress Control Number2016011515
- OCLC Control Number943704990
- Better World Books9789004319707
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL38034407M
Classifications
- LCCDE31.V35 2016
- LCCDE31 .V35 2016
Description
‘Where am I?’. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape’ denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture. In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.
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