Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity: Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces

Author:   Debbie Felton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   306
Publication Date:   26 April 2018
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Author:   Debbie Felton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781138104952


ISBN 10:   1138104957
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   26 April 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Introduction: dread and the landscape; Part I Evoking dread in early Greek literature: Homer and tragedy; 1. Abject landscapes of the Iliad, William Brockliss; 2. Limits of dread: ἐσχατιά, πεῖραρ, and dangerous edge-space in Homeric formulae. Chloe Bray; 3. Home and away: the importance of suicide location in Sophocles’ Ajax, Bridget Martin; 4. Dreamscape and dread in Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians, Melissa Mueller; Part II Anxiety and dread in the Roman literary landscape; 5. Living in fear: affect and dwelling space in Horace’s Roman Odes, Adrian Gramps; 6. Saeva quies and Lucan’s landscapes of anxiety, Laura Zientek; 7. Wily wetlands: imperialism and resistance in Tacitus’s Batavian revolt, Leen Van Broeck; Part III Dread of the preternatural in classical literature; 8. Dragonscapes and dread, Daniel Ogden; 9. The liminal space: suburbs as a demonic domain in classical literature, Julia Doroszewska; 10. Dread of daimones in (ancient) urban spaces, Debbie Felton; 11. Haunted minds, haunted places: topographies of insanity in Greek and Roman paradoxography, George Kazantzidis; 12. Dread in the dark? From modern fiction to classical antiquity, Mercedes Aguirre; Part IV Epilogue: the afterlife of dreadful antiquity; 13. Detroit and the classical sublime, or, in Defense of ""ruin porn"", Jesse Weiner with Terressa A. Benz; Index"

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Anyone intrigued by sophisticated approaches to classical philology will be attracted to this thought-provoking collection of essays. Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity is the result of the experimental yet meticulous research of emotion and space in diverse literary contexts. The contributors trace the topography of dread, fear and terror in selected passages from Graeco-Roman literature; they also demonstrate that dragons, demons and ghosts, the abject and the preternatural were a source of fascination for the ancient world as they are for us. Indeed, the dark side of the moon haunts classical as well as modern thought-and this volume succeeds in highlighting both. - Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University, Greece


Anyone intrigued by sophisticated approaches to classical philology will be attracted to this thought-provoking collection of essays. Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity is the result of the experimental yet meticulous research of emotion and space in diverse literary contexts. The contributors trace the topography of dread, fear and terror in selected passages from Graeco-Roman literature; they also demonstrate that dragons, demons and ghosts, the abject and the preternatural were a source of fascination for the ancient world as they are for us. Indeed, the dark side of the moon haunts classical as well as modern thought?and this volume succeeds in highlighting both. - Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University, Greece


Author Information

Debbie Felton is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States, and the author of Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity (1999). She has published widely on folklore in classical literature. Her current research projects include a book on serial killers in the ancient world and a monograph on the Cyclops. She has been the editor of the journal Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural since February 2015.

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