Abstract:This book discusses many of Theocritus’s Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct space—its contours and borders along with the people, animals, and objects that fill it and the equally important role of absence. It draws on spatial theory from anthropology and cultural geography. Each poem is studied in itself and in its connections with other poems, so that a loose coherence emerges among them. Spatially, the Ptolemaic empire provides a setting and reference point for the various types of Idylls (bu… Show more
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