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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 September 2020
      08 October 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108892728
      9781108840835
      9781108744041
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108892728
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.83kg, 468 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.686kg, 468 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
      Series:
      Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
    Series:
    Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos at large, and on the lessons we can learn from fish. Using a combination of close reading and wider interpretative lenses, this book examines the literary texture and cultural relevance of the Halieutica by analysing its sophisticated refraction of earlier literary-critical theories and hexameter traditions, its commentary on human-animal relations, and its contribution to imperial Greek literary, political, and cultural debates. The book demonstrates the importance and cultural centrality of this understudied Greek didactic epic; it is written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epics, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world.

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    ‘This study is deeply researched and amply annotated; it may not be much help to those seeking to catch a fish dinner, but it opens up a work unfamiliar even to those many scholars of Greek literature under the Roman empire.’

    James Romm Source: Times Literary Supplement

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