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""Longlisted for the Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League"" ""Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize, London Hellenic Society"" ""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"" ""[An] enchanting love letter, a sonorous ode to nature. . . .This thorough, meticulous, and excellently written book informs the reader on basically every aspect of Greek and Roman imagination and experience of mountains.""---Andrej Petrovic, Greece and Rome ""One need look no further than König’s The Folds of Olympus for what is surely the most readable, comprehensive account of mountains in ancient Greek and Roman culture. Based on firsthand experience, wide-ranging research, and profound insights, the book takes readers on a journey up slopes, atop summits, and across vistas of mountain geographies around the Mediterranean and beyond."" * Choice * ""[W]onderfully rich and stimulating.""---John Taylor, Classics for All ""The Folds of Olympus shows König’s mastery of material vast enough to be the subjects and substance of countless seminars in Classical studies. This grasp of ancient history and culture is matched by König’s knowledge and love of the physical side of his subject.""---Gerald Lalonde, The Past ""The Folds of Olympus is a handsome and well-written contribution to the recent uptake of interest in the representation of the mountain in various areas of cultural and literary scholarship.""---International Journal of the Classical Tradition, William M. Barton ""The best and most comprehensive treatment of classical mountains to date. . . . [E]ssential reading.""---Dan Hooley, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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Jason Knig is Professor of Classics at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire and Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, and the coeditor of Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity, among other books.

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