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Author(s): Greta Hawes
ISBN(s): 9780198744771, 0198744773
Edition: Illustrated
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Year: 2017
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0198744773 
ISBN 13: 9780198744771
Author: Greta Hawes 

Polybius boldly declared that ‘now that all places have become accessible by land or sea, it is no longer appropriate to use poets and writers of myth as witnesses of the unknown’ (4.40.2). And yet, in reality, the significance of myth did not diminish as the borders of the known world expanded. Storytelling was always an inextricable part of how the ancient Greeks understood their environment; mythic maps existed alongside new, more concrete, methods of charting the contours of the earth. Specific landscape features acted as repositories of myth and spurred their retelling; myths, in turn, shaped and gave sense to natural and built environments, and were crucial to the conceptual resonances of places both unknown and known. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of Greek myth, literature, history, and archaeology to examine the myriad intricate ways in which ancient Greek myth interacted with the physical and conceptual landscapes of antiquity. The diverse range of approaches and topics highlights in particular the plurality and pervasiveness of such interactions. The collection as a whole sheds new light on the central importance of storytelling in Greek conceptions of space.

Myths on the Map The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece 1st Table of contents:

1. Walking through History: Unlocking the Mythical Past
Landscape as Palimpsest: At the Crossroads of Space and Time
Myth and Landscape: A Natural Partnership
Islands of Myth and Travelling Heroes
Creating the Heroic Landscape: A Patchwork of Myth and History
Travel and Re-enactment: Unlocking the Mythical Past
Conclusion
2. Cities-Before-Cities: ‘Prefoundational’ Myth and the Construction of Greek Civic Space
Introduction: Cities-before-Cities
Foundation and Its Antecedents
Thebes-before-Thebes
‘Leapfrogging’ Founders: Heracles, Croton, and Myscellus
The Contest for Athens
Conclusion: ‘Prefoundations’
3. Landscapes of the CyclopesRichard Buxton
Multiple Cyclopes
Cyclopes in a Landscape
Homonyms in a Landscape
4. Mapping the Hellespont with Leander and Hero: ‘The Swimming Lover and the Nightly Bride’
The Location
The Story of Hero and Leander
Landscape, Narrative, and Memory
The Transmission of the Tale in Literary Forms
Hero and Leander in the Visual Arts
Mapping the Landscape
5. Centaurs and Lapiths in the Landscape of Thessaly
Introduction
Thessaly: One Land or Many?
Geography and Tribal Politics in Non-Thessalian Accounts
Thessalian Agency in the Formation and Re-Formation of Lapith–Centaur Myths
Locating the Centaurs
Conclusion
6. Meddling with Myth in Thebes: A New Vase from the Ismenion Hill (Thebes Museum 49276)
Pindar
Sphinxes and Thebes
The New Vase from Thebes
7. Callimachus and the Poetics of the Diaspora
Greece: Home and Away
Callimachus as Diaspora Poet
Geopolitics: Locations in Space and Time
Divinities and Dynasties
8. Pausanias’ Arcadia between Conservatism and Innovation
Introduction
Pausanias on Arcadia
Historical Changes to Religious Topography
To Complete Pausanias: Epigraphic Evidence, Euergetism, and Roman Hellenism
Conclusion: The Construction of a Numinous Landscape
9. Rivers Run Through It: Environmental History in Two Heroic Riverine Battles
Hydrogeology of Greece
Achilles and the Scamander
Heracles and the Achelous
Conclusion
10. Fountains as Reservoirs of Myth and Memory
‘In the City of Peirene’
‘The City of Androclus’
A Tale of Two Cities
11. Scandalous Maps in Aeschylean Tragedy
Mapping as a Divine Privilege in Epic Poetry
First Prose and First Maps
Prometheus Bound: Mapping Zeus’ Bride
Agamemnon: Mapping Tragic Revenge
12. Imaginary Islands in the Hellenistic Era: Utopia on the Geographical Map
Introduction
The Islands of the Blessed: Evolution of Utopia
Panchaea and Other Utopian Islands
Conclusions
13. Imaginary Itineraries in the Beyond
The Odyssey
Pherecydes of Athens
Herodotus
14. Islands of Knowledge: Space and Names in Imperial Mythography
Mythography and ‘Ordering the World’
Continuity and Inconsistencies of Space in Mythography
Space as a Hodological Creation
Space as a Reservoir of Names
What is the Place the Name of?
From Space Fragmented to Space Reconstructed
15. Serpents in the Soul: The ‘Libyan Myth’ of Dio Chrysostom
The ‘Libyan Myth’
Dio and Plato
Heracles in the Desert

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