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The Ancient Sea : The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception

by: Williams, H. Clare, R.

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Code: 30547
ISBN-13: 9781835537954 / 978-1-83553-795-4
ISBN-10: 1835537952 / 1-83553-795-2
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Place: Liverpool
Binding: Paper
Pages: 311
Book Condition: New

Contents:
Introduction (Hamish Williams and Ross Clare)Section 1: Ancient History and SocietyFrom the Edge of the Deep Green Sea: Tsunamis and Coastal Catastrophes in the Ancient Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean (Guy Middleton)The Greek Notions of Sea Power (Vilius Bartninkas)Plato Sailing Upstream: The Image of the Ship in the Republic (Gabriele Cornelli)Sailing to Find Utopia or Sailing to Found Utopia? The Pragmatic and Idealistic Pursuit of Ideal Cities in Greek and Roman Political Philosophy (Aaron L. Beek)Ruling the Catastrophic Sea: Roman Law and the Gains of a Utopic Mediterranean (Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz)Section 2: Ancient LiteratureThe Seas are Full of Monsters: Divine Utopia, Human Catastrophe (Georgia L. Irby)Order Among Disorder: Poseidon?s Underwater Kingdom and Utopic Marine Environments (Ryan Denson)The Women and the Sea: The Subjective Seascape in Ovid?s Heroides (Simona Martorana)The Anti-Tyrannical Adriatic in Lucan?s Civil War (Isaia Crosson)Section 3: Classical ReceptionsHow to Detain a Tsunami: Impassable Boundaries against Ocean Chaos in Ancient and Modern Imaginaries (Manuel Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar)Classical Dimensions of the Robinsonade Pantomime: Neptune, Aphrodite, and the Threat to Civilization (Rhiannon Easterbrook)Minoan Utopias in British Fiction, after the Thalassocracy: Lawrence Durrell?s The Dark Labyrinth and Robert Graves? Seven Days in New Crete (Hamish Williams)Bibliography

 
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