Space and Text Worlds in Apollonius
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Gregory Hutchinson
G.O. Hutchinson Aeschylus, Septem contra Thebas ,Edited with Introduction and Commentary (Oxford 1985);Hellenistic Poetry (Oxford 1988);Latin Literature from Seneca to Juvenal: A Critical Study (Oxford 1993);Cicero’s Correspondence: A Literary Study (Oxford 1998);Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces (Oxford 2001);Propertius: Elegies Book IV (Cambridge 2006);Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry (Oxford 2008);Greek to Latin: Frameworks and Contexts for Intertextuality (Oxford 2013);Plutarch’s Rhythmic Prose (Oxford 2018);Motion in Classical Literature: Homer, Parmenides, Sophocles, Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Art (Oxford 2020).
Abstract
The paper looks not so much at geographical space or at the standard antithesis of “space” and “place,” but at the fluctuating relationships of space and mind. Various contrasts of inside and outside are considered (bodies, ships, houses), in connection with characters’ experience of space and its meaning. Werth’s idea of text worlds is then considered: the shifting worlds presented in a text, often as perceived or constructed by characters. This approach is given more substance by thinking about space; spatial approaches are given more finesse by thinking about text worlds. The marriage of approaches works happily for similes, for characters’ imaginings, for the physical spaces they structure and manage. It suits the ever-shifting Argonautica well.
About the author
G.O. Hutchinson is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. He has written: Aeschylus,Septem contra Thebas, Edited with Introduction and Commentary (Oxford 1985); Hellenistic Poetry (Oxford 1988); Latin Literature from Seneca to Juvenal: A Critical Study (Oxford 1993); Cicero’s Correspondence: A Literary Study (Oxford 1998); Greek Lyric Poetry: A Commentary on Selected Larger Pieces (Oxford 2001); Propertius: Elegies Book IV (Cambridge 2006); Talking Books: Readings in Hellenistic and Roman Books of Poetry (Oxford 2008); Greek to Latin: Frameworks and Contexts for Intertextuality (Oxford 2013); Plutarch’s Rhythmic Prose (Oxford 2018); Motion in Classical Literature: Homer, Parmenides, Sophocles, Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Art (Oxford 2020).
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Dr E. Papadodima for the opportunity to include this chapter. In 2018 I gave a talk at the Academy of Athens on motion in Greek and Latin epic; but it overlapped with a book I am writing on motion in classical literature. Instead, I have been invited to include the present piece; it was originally written ten years ago for a joint volume that did not materialize, but it has been reconsidered and updated. It had benefited from the encouragement and comments of Professor G.B. D’Alessio and Dr V. Cazzato.
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- Introduction
- Homer and Traditional Poetics
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- How to End theOdyssey
- From Wrath to Punishment: Indirect Communication Between Poseidon and Zeus in Homer’sOdyssey 13.125–158
- The Meta–Narrative Moment: Rhesus’ Horses Revisited
- Space and Text Worlds in Apollonius
- Immobility and Motion in Colluthus’The Abduction of Helen
- Through the Epic Tradition: Speech and Assemblies in Quintus’Posthomerica
- Narratives ofamor,armaandarmenta in Ovid’sMetamorphoses
- Bibliography
- Index of Sources
- Index of Terms
- List of Contributors
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Introduction
- Homer and Traditional Poetics
- From Choral to Monodic Hymns: Some Evidence from theHomeric Hymns
- How to End theOdyssey
- From Wrath to Punishment: Indirect Communication Between Poseidon and Zeus in Homer’sOdyssey 13.125–158
- The Meta–Narrative Moment: Rhesus’ Horses Revisited
- Space and Text Worlds in Apollonius
- Immobility and Motion in Colluthus’The Abduction of Helen
- Through the Epic Tradition: Speech and Assemblies in Quintus’Posthomerica
- Narratives ofamor,armaandarmenta in Ovid’sMetamorphoses
- Bibliography
- Index of Sources
- Index of Terms
- List of Contributors
