Автор: Jeremy McInerney
Название: Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity: Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination
Издательство: Brill
Год: 2016
ISBN: 9789004319707; 9004319700
Серия: Mnemosyne, Supplements (Book 393)
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,1 mb
Страниц: 496

'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 seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, the text demonstrates the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.