Table Of ContentGeography, Topography, Landscape
Trends in Classics –
Supplementary Volumes
Edited by
Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos
Scientific Committee
Alberto Bernabé · Margarethe Billerbeck
Claude Calame · Philip R. Hardie · Stephen J. Harrison
Stephen Hinds · Richard Hunter · Christina Kraus
Giuseppe Mastromarco · Gregory Nagy
Theodore D. Papanghelis · Giusto Picone
Kurt Raaflaub · Bernhard Zimmermann
Volume 22
Geography,
Topography,
Landscape
Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic
Edited by
Marios Skempis and Ioannis Ziogas
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Foreword
The idea of a multi-authored volume dedicated to geography and space in an-
cientepicgoesback tothe veryfirst Trendsin Classics international conference
organized by Jonas Grethlein and Antonios Rengakos in Thessaloniki, Greece,
wheretheeditorsofthisvolumecollaboratedtowriteapaperonHomer’sOdys-
sey.Intheaftermathofthatconference,theeditorswerelight-heartedenoughto
allowthemselvestoengageinaprojectthatwasmeanttotakemanyturnsuntil
itfounditswayintoprint.Ourwishbackthenwastodealwithasubjectmatter,
whichcurrentscholarshiphasroomfor,andtoproduceaninformative,compre-
hensively structured and reader-friendly volume on the ‘geographies’ of Greek
andRomanepic.Itfallstothereaderofthebooktodecidewhetherwemanaged
to meet these criteria.
Epicgeography is one thing, and human geography is another.The project
was first and foremost warmly saluted by Antonios Rengakos, whose genuine
concernandunflaggingsupportovertheyearsarefarbeyondacknowledgment.
IntheClassicsDepartmentofBaselUniversity,Switzerland,AntonBierl,Rebec-
ca Lämmle, Katharina Wesselmann, Magdalene Stoevesandt, Henriette Harich,
and Petra Schierl offered valuable help and solidarity.The encouraging words
of Damien Nelis and Stephen Wheeler alreadyduring the genesis of the project
releasedvital energies for undertakinga difficulttaskat times ofoveralluncer-
tainty.TheDepartmentofReligiousStudiesatErfurtUniversityhasprovedacon-
genialplacetopursuesuchanambitiousproject,themoresosincethepresence
ofKaiBrodersen,aninternationalauthorityinthestudyofgeographyandspace
in antiquity, provided the necessary impetus and inspiration for its progress.
Katharina Waldner, Richard Gordon, and Jörg Rüpke helped the project take
itsfinalshapeinmorethanoneways.VeitRosenberger,WolfgangSpickermann,
Leif Scheuermann, Daniel Albrecht, Christian Karst, Johannes Eberhardt, and
MihaelaHolbanwerealwayseagertodiscussmattersofspatialityinancientlit-
eratureandprovidedvaluableinsightsinindividualqueries.Wearealsograteful
totheClassicsDepartmentsofCornellUniversity,theUniversityofAdelaide,and
theAustralianNationalUniversity.Manythanksarealsoduetotheanonymous
readers of Trends in Classics for their helpful and encouragingcomments.
For alltheir support,understandingand deep concernwewouldliketoex-
press our gratitude to all aforementioned colleagues and to our contributors
fromwhomwe learnt a lot.
Marios Skempis Thessaloniki
Ioannis Ziogas Canberra
Contents
Marios Skempisand Ioannis Ziogas
Introduction: Putting Epic Space in Context 1
Johannes Haubold
Ethnography in the Iliad 19
Alex Purves
Thick Description
From Auerbach to the Boar’s Lair (Od. 19.388–475) 37
Donald Lateiner
Homer’s Social-Psychological Spaces and Places 63
Anthony T. Edwards
The Ethical Geography of Hesiod’s Works and Days 95
Kirk Ormand
Uncertain Geographies of Female Desire in the Hesiodic Catalogue:
Atalanta 137
Evina Sistakou
Mapping Counterfactuality in Apollonius’ Argonautica 161
Katerina Carvounis
Landscape Markers and Time in Quintus’ Posthomerica 181
Robert Shorrock
Crossing the Hydaspes
Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Boundaries of Epic 209
Jackie Elliott
Space and Geography in Ennius’ Annales 223
Stratis Kyriakidis
From Delos to Latium
Wandering in the Unknown 265
VIII Contents
Marios Skempis
Phenomenology of Space, Place Names and Colonization
in the ‘Caieta-Circe’ Sequence of Aeneid 7 291
Ioannis Ziogas
The Topography of Epic Narrative in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 325
Alison Keith
Ovidian Geographies in Flavian Mythological Epic 349
Erica Bexley
Lucan’s Catalogues and the Landscape of War 373
Ruth Parkes
The Long Road to Thebes
The Geography of Journeys in Statius’ Thebaid 405
Helen Slaney
The Voyage of Rediscovery
Consuming Global Space in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 427
Gesine Manuwald
Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica
The Argo’s Maiden Voyage from Europe into the Unknown 463
Bibliography 487
List of Contributors 519
Index rerum et nominum 523
Index locorum 535
Marios Skempis and Ioannis Ziogas
Introduction: Putting Epic Space in Context
Anepicgeographyisa metaspaceembeddedinthesecondskin oftheearth–avirtual
mantleforminganarrativeunfoldingthatsimulatestheskin.Motionthroughthetexture
of the mantle unfolds the narrative.When a scenario is formed within the second skin
usingitsresources,anepicgeographyisformed.
R.Bunschoten,T.Hoshino,H.Binet,UrbanFlotsam:StirringtheCity(p.273)
Currentchallengesthatstemmainlyfromglobalizationandenvironmentalcon-
cerns have reinvigorated scholarly interest in human geography.¹ Even though
these current issues tend to sideline the diachronic dimension of geography
byadoptingseeminglynon-anthropocentricpositions,theyessentiallyconverge
intoonebasicprinciple:theactsofapersonlocateher/hisexistencewithinsur-
roundingenvironments.Andthepluralisherenocoincidence.Infact,itispre-
ciselythe interrelated notions ofhuman agencyand experiencethatturn space
intoplaceandvindicatethenecessityoftheplural‘places.’²Aseriesofturns(lin-
guistic,discursive,cultural)havegraduallysignpostedthedevelopmentofcross-
disciplinarydiscussion on space, now crystallized in the so-called geographical
orspatialturn.³Thedecisiveimpetuswasgivenbythesocialsciencesthathave
beeneagertoexamine(and,noless,theorize)therelationofgeographicalspace
(nature)tosocialspace(culture).⁴Thespatialturnreworks“theverynotionand
substanceofspatialitytoofferaperspectiveinwhichspaceiseverybitasimpor-
tantastimeintheunfoldingofhumanaffairs,aviewinwhichgeographyisnot
relegatedtoanafterthoughtofsocialrelations,butisintimatelyinvolvedintheir
construction”.⁵ Pinning down the spatial dimensions of social processes casts
space as the arena of social interface par excellence. From this point of view,
space is far from static since it is constantly negotiated and reconstructed in
the physical,cultural,and political map.The nation-shapingroleof geography,
thetopographyofisolationandintegration,theboundingofspaceandthecross-
ingof boundaries,the gendered dynamics of geographyas well as the spaceof
language and literature are some of the aspects that lie at the heart of modern
criticism on human geography.⁶
DeBlij2009;Bruckmeier/Serbser2008.
Tuan1977;Buttimer/Seamon1980;Hirsch1995;Creswell1996;Malpas1999.
Foroverviews,seeSoja1989;Günzel2007;2009;2010.
Lossau/Lippuner2004;Withers2009;Warf/Arias2009.
Warf/Arias2009,1.
Prescott1965;Bachelard1969[1994];Sibley1995;Moss/Al-Hindi2008.
