Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire Thalmann William G.
Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire Thalmann William G. Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire discusses many of Theocritus's Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct space--its contours…
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Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire Thalmann William G.
Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire 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. Thalmann studies each poem in itself and in its connections with other poems, so that a loose coherence emerges among them. Drawing on spatial theory from anthropology and cultural geography, author William G.
In all the idylls, however, space is constructed selectively from particular perspectives, so that it reflects and shapes people's relations with each other and humans' relations with nature. Spatially, the Ptolemaic empire provides a setting and reference point for the various types of Idylls (bucolic, urban, mythological, and encomiastic poems), in ways that help legitimate it. The bucolic
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