£132.00

Brill Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity - Mnemosyne 393

Name: Brill Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity - Mnemosyne 393
Brand: Brill
Price: 135.49 GBP
Availability: InStock

Greece

Price History & Forecast

Last 40 days • 40 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 40 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £135 (24 days, 60.0%)

Price range: £132 - £135

Price levels: 2 different prices over 40 days

Description

Explore the deep connection between the physical world and human thought in Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity. This academic work examines how the natural environment shaped the cultural imagination of the Greco-Roman world. Rather than looking at terrain as a mere setting for human action, this book investigates how people attributed symbolic meaning and value to their surroundings. Through a detailed study of landscape as a cultural creation, the text moves beyond simple physical orientation to look at how terrain functions as a symbolic concept. It provides a deep look into how the environments of antiquity influenced the way people perceived their existence and their place in the world. This volume is an essential resource for those studying the history and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome, offering a specialized perspective on how the physical setting and human culture exist together.

Key Features

Examines the symbolic conception of terrain and how landscape functions as a creation of human culture.

Provides a detailed look at how physical environments impacted the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity.

Includes seventeen chapters of scholarly research regarding the relationship between location and human meaning.

Part of the Mnemosyne, Supplements, 393 series published by Brill for academic study.

Offers deep insights into the connection between physical orientation and embodied human existence.

Product Specifications

Brand: Brill
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 9004319700
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation > Greece
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 June 2016
Listed Since: 23 February 2016

Barcode

No barcode data available

Brill Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity - Mnemosyne 393

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature

Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity (Ancient Environments)

The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn: 434 (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 434)

The Anthropology Of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Decoration in Early Imperial Italy

Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity: 481 (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 481)

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

Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Routledge Cultural Landscapes: Religion and Public Life Book

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

Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future (Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception)

Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism

A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments (Explorations in Anthropology)

Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future (Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception)

Symbolic Landscapes

Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds: Geography and the Humanities

The Archaeology of Semiotics and the Social Order of Things: 1833 (British Archaeological Reports International Series)

Interpreting Transformations of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Archaeological Approaches and Issues

Myths on the Map: The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece

Space, Place and Religious Landscapes: Living Mountains (Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion)

Landscape Archaeology: Critical Concepts in Archaeology, Volume I-IV

Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach (Landscape and Heritage Studies)

Explorations in the Understanding of Landscape: A Cultural Geography: 77 (Controversies in Science)

Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life: Memory, Place and the Senses