Oppian's Halieutica
Charting a Didactic Epic
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Part of Greek Culture in the Roman World
- Author: Emily Kneebone, University of Nottingham
- Date Published: March 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108744041
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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.
Read more- Offers the first sustained and comprehensive literary reading of the Halieutica
- Contextualises the poem within a range of ancient perspectives and debates
- Addresses the poem's place within ancient attitudes towards human-animal relations
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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, Times Literary Supplement
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- Date Published: March 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108744041
- length: 467 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.686kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction. On fishing
I. Didactic poetry:
1. Didactic epic
2. Knowledge and pleasure
3. Mapping the sea
II. Morality at sea:
4. Guile
5. Greed
6. Lust
III. Humans and animals:
7. Epic similes
8. Analogical animals
9. Humans and other animals
IV. Seas real and unreal:
10. Locating monsters
11. An empire of fish
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