Greek Literary Topographies in the Roman Imperial World

Janet Downie is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Anna Peterson is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University, USA.

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Series Preface

I. Setting the Scence
Introduction: Spatial Perspectives from the Greek East by Janet Downie (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA) and Anna Peterson (Penn State University, USA)
Chapter 1: Human and Environment in Imperial Greek literature by Jason König (University of St. Andrews, UK)

II. Creating Literary Space: Movement, Travel, Displacement
Chapter 2: Topography as Literary Assemblage: Periegesis with Dionysius and Pausanias by Janet Downie (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA)
Chapter 3: Dio’s Moral Geography by William Hutton (College of William & Mary, USA)
Chapter 4: Displacing Dio: Landscape in the Urban Orations by N. Bryant Kirkland (University of California - Los Angeles, USA)

III. Multitemporal Landscapes
Chapter 5: Moral Topography: Plutarch’s Description of Sulla’s Entry to Athens by Muriel Moser-Gerber (Frankfurt University, Germany)
Chapter 6: Theseus’ Imperial Topographies by R. Scott Smith (University of New Hampshire), Greta Hawes (Australian National University), Aristogenia Toumpas (Ohio State University, USA)
Chapter 7: Monuments, Memory, and Space in Imperial Greek Narratives of Alexander by Estelle Strazdins (Australian National University, Australia)

IV. Political Landscapes, Sacred Landscapes
Chapter 8: Empire, Absence, and Disbelief in Lucian’s Toxaris by Inger Kuin (University of Virginia, USA)
Chapter 9: Imagining Imperial Interconnection in Hostile Greek Texts from the Roman Provinces by Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (University of Colorado – Boulder, USA)
Chapter 10: Time, Space, and the Apocalypse: Greek and Egyptian Narratives of Alexandria by Robert Cioffi (Bard College, USA)

V. Human Topographies: Bodies in Landscape
Chapter 11: Body and Time in the Dreamscapes of Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica by Kate Gilhuly (Wellesley College, USA)
Chapter 12: Bodies and Space in Epistolary Fiction by Anna Peterson (Penn State University, USA)
Chapter 13: Placial Knowledge: The Sacred Well at Pergamum and its Users by Artemis Brod (Independent Scholar, USA)

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