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

Nancy Worman is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of articles and books on style, performance and the body in Greek literature and culture, such as Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Most recently she has published articles on the aesthetics of tragic embodiment and co-edited Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (with Kate Gilhuly, Cambridge University Press, 2014).

• Introduction: dreams of order; 1. Mimesis, style, and the spaces of metaphor; 2. Rural resources: Hesiod, Pindar, and establishing poetic dominion; 3. On the road: charting the path of literary judgment in Aristophanes; 4. Rural retreats: staking philosophy's terrain in Plato; 5. Diaspora: journeys and idylls in Hellenistic poetry; 6. On the road again: Demetrius and fellow travelers on aesthetic re-routings; 7. In Plato's garden: reordering the retreat in Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Epilogue: dreaming in the garden with Proust.

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