Shaping the Geography of Empire
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Shaping the Geography of Empire
Man and Nature in Herodotus' Histories
Clarke, Katherine
Oxford University Press
06/2018
368
Dura
Inglês
9780198820437
15 a 20 dias
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I. Reading Herodotus in Context
1: . . . there was no Herodotus before Herodotus'
1.a: Treading in the footsteps of giants
1.b: Finding space in the study of Herodotus
1.b.i: Herodotus' spaces, peoples, and places: the scholarly landscape
1.b.ii: Sharpening the lens: bringing focalization into play
1.c: Location, location, location: Herodotus' world and the dynamics of empire
II. Herodotus' Sense of Place and Space
2: Mapping out the World
2.a: Mapping the extremes
2.b: Filling in the broad canvas: continents and comparisons
2.c: Marching through the landscape: the geography of expeditions
2.d: Trade, tourism, and theoria
2.e: The evocative list
3: Lines and Dots
3.a: Criss-crossing the narrative: rivers and the articulation of space
3.b: Fonts of rivers, spines of the land: mountains in Herodotus' landscape
3.c: Islands
3.c.i: The specialness of being nesiotes
3.c.ii: Transformation and migration
3.c.iii: The island as a commodity
III. Giving Meaning to Space
4: Depth and Resonance
4.a: Wonderful world: works of nature, works of man
4.b: The dimension of time: unlocking the mythical landscape
4.c: Collapsing spaces, parallel places
5: Geographical Morality
5.a: Good and bad control: modulating the moral landscape
5.b: Negotiating the rivers, moral barometers
5.b.i: Walking on water: sailing over land
5.b.ii: Bridging rivers, bridging continents: crossing the great divide
5.b.iii: Reaching the Promised Land: entering the Gardens of Midas
IV. Grand Designs
6: The Conquest of Nature: Herodotus' 'Military Narrative'
6.a: The allure of beauty and the language of desire
6.b: The metaphor of conquest: slavery, rage, punishment, and subjugation
6.c: Nature joins battle: opposition and alliance
6.d: (Mis)understanding the divine
7: Writing an Imperial Geography
7.a: Determining nature's will: stability or mobility
7.b: Thinking big: imperial designs and the problem of hybris
7.c: Passion for power: a Persian paradigm?
7.d: Herodotus and the geography of dynamis
Epilogue
Endmatter
References
Subject Index
Index of Passages Discussed
1: . . . there was no Herodotus before Herodotus'
1.a: Treading in the footsteps of giants
1.b: Finding space in the study of Herodotus
1.b.i: Herodotus' spaces, peoples, and places: the scholarly landscape
1.b.ii: Sharpening the lens: bringing focalization into play
1.c: Location, location, location: Herodotus' world and the dynamics of empire
II. Herodotus' Sense of Place and Space
2: Mapping out the World
2.a: Mapping the extremes
2.b: Filling in the broad canvas: continents and comparisons
2.c: Marching through the landscape: the geography of expeditions
2.d: Trade, tourism, and theoria
2.e: The evocative list
3: Lines and Dots
3.a: Criss-crossing the narrative: rivers and the articulation of space
3.b: Fonts of rivers, spines of the land: mountains in Herodotus' landscape
3.c: Islands
3.c.i: The specialness of being nesiotes
3.c.ii: Transformation and migration
3.c.iii: The island as a commodity
III. Giving Meaning to Space
4: Depth and Resonance
4.a: Wonderful world: works of nature, works of man
4.b: The dimension of time: unlocking the mythical landscape
4.c: Collapsing spaces, parallel places
5: Geographical Morality
5.a: Good and bad control: modulating the moral landscape
5.b: Negotiating the rivers, moral barometers
5.b.i: Walking on water: sailing over land
5.b.ii: Bridging rivers, bridging continents: crossing the great divide
5.b.iii: Reaching the Promised Land: entering the Gardens of Midas
IV. Grand Designs
6: The Conquest of Nature: Herodotus' 'Military Narrative'
6.a: The allure of beauty and the language of desire
6.b: The metaphor of conquest: slavery, rage, punishment, and subjugation
6.c: Nature joins battle: opposition and alliance
6.d: (Mis)understanding the divine
7: Writing an Imperial Geography
7.a: Determining nature's will: stability or mobility
7.b: Thinking big: imperial designs and the problem of hybris
7.c: Passion for power: a Persian paradigm?
7.d: Herodotus and the geography of dynamis
Epilogue
Endmatter
References
Subject Index
Index of Passages Discussed
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I. Reading Herodotus in Context
1: . . . there was no Herodotus before Herodotus'
1.a: Treading in the footsteps of giants
1.b: Finding space in the study of Herodotus
1.b.i: Herodotus' spaces, peoples, and places: the scholarly landscape
1.b.ii: Sharpening the lens: bringing focalization into play
1.c: Location, location, location: Herodotus' world and the dynamics of empire
II. Herodotus' Sense of Place and Space
2: Mapping out the World
2.a: Mapping the extremes
2.b: Filling in the broad canvas: continents and comparisons
2.c: Marching through the landscape: the geography of expeditions
2.d: Trade, tourism, and theoria
2.e: The evocative list
3: Lines and Dots
3.a: Criss-crossing the narrative: rivers and the articulation of space
3.b: Fonts of rivers, spines of the land: mountains in Herodotus' landscape
3.c: Islands
3.c.i: The specialness of being nesiotes
3.c.ii: Transformation and migration
3.c.iii: The island as a commodity
III. Giving Meaning to Space
4: Depth and Resonance
4.a: Wonderful world: works of nature, works of man
4.b: The dimension of time: unlocking the mythical landscape
4.c: Collapsing spaces, parallel places
5: Geographical Morality
5.a: Good and bad control: modulating the moral landscape
5.b: Negotiating the rivers, moral barometers
5.b.i: Walking on water: sailing over land
5.b.ii: Bridging rivers, bridging continents: crossing the great divide
5.b.iii: Reaching the Promised Land: entering the Gardens of Midas
IV. Grand Designs
6: The Conquest of Nature: Herodotus' 'Military Narrative'
6.a: The allure of beauty and the language of desire
6.b: The metaphor of conquest: slavery, rage, punishment, and subjugation
6.c: Nature joins battle: opposition and alliance
6.d: (Mis)understanding the divine
7: Writing an Imperial Geography
7.a: Determining nature's will: stability or mobility
7.b: Thinking big: imperial designs and the problem of hybris
7.c: Passion for power: a Persian paradigm?
7.d: Herodotus and the geography of dynamis
Epilogue
Endmatter
References
Subject Index
Index of Passages Discussed
1: . . . there was no Herodotus before Herodotus'
1.a: Treading in the footsteps of giants
1.b: Finding space in the study of Herodotus
1.b.i: Herodotus' spaces, peoples, and places: the scholarly landscape
1.b.ii: Sharpening the lens: bringing focalization into play
1.c: Location, location, location: Herodotus' world and the dynamics of empire
II. Herodotus' Sense of Place and Space
2: Mapping out the World
2.a: Mapping the extremes
2.b: Filling in the broad canvas: continents and comparisons
2.c: Marching through the landscape: the geography of expeditions
2.d: Trade, tourism, and theoria
2.e: The evocative list
3: Lines and Dots
3.a: Criss-crossing the narrative: rivers and the articulation of space
3.b: Fonts of rivers, spines of the land: mountains in Herodotus' landscape
3.c: Islands
3.c.i: The specialness of being nesiotes
3.c.ii: Transformation and migration
3.c.iii: The island as a commodity
III. Giving Meaning to Space
4: Depth and Resonance
4.a: Wonderful world: works of nature, works of man
4.b: The dimension of time: unlocking the mythical landscape
4.c: Collapsing spaces, parallel places
5: Geographical Morality
5.a: Good and bad control: modulating the moral landscape
5.b: Negotiating the rivers, moral barometers
5.b.i: Walking on water: sailing over land
5.b.ii: Bridging rivers, bridging continents: crossing the great divide
5.b.iii: Reaching the Promised Land: entering the Gardens of Midas
IV. Grand Designs
6: The Conquest of Nature: Herodotus' 'Military Narrative'
6.a: The allure of beauty and the language of desire
6.b: The metaphor of conquest: slavery, rage, punishment, and subjugation
6.c: Nature joins battle: opposition and alliance
6.d: (Mis)understanding the divine
7: Writing an Imperial Geography
7.a: Determining nature's will: stability or mobility
7.b: Thinking big: imperial designs and the problem of hybris
7.c: Passion for power: a Persian paradigm?
7.d: Herodotus and the geography of dynamis
Epilogue
Endmatter
References
Subject Index
Index of Passages Discussed
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