‘Where am I?’. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape’ denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture.
In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.

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Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity: Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination 4
‎Contents 8
‎List of Illustrations 12
‎List of Contributors 15
1 Jeremy McInerney and Ineke Sluiter: General Introduction 18
1 Introduction 18
2 From the Island of the Cyclopes to Euboea 20
3 Polyvalent Landscapes: To Safeguard and to Exploit 24
4 In This Volume ... 26
4.1 Mountains and Myths 26
4.2 Underground and Underworld: From Terrain to Stimmung 28
4.3 The Sacred 28
4.4 Battlefields and Memory of War 30
4.5 Moving Around 31
5 Conclusion 33
Acknowledgements 35
Bibliography 36
‎Part 1: Mountains 40
2 Richard Buxton: Mount Etna in the Greco-Roman imaginaire: Culture and Liquid Fire 42
1 Introduction 42
2 Texts 43
2.1 Myth 43
2.2 Science (or: ‘Science’) 49
2.3 History/Geography 52
2.4 Plurality 55
3 Generalizations and Conclusions 58
Bibliography 60
3 Jason König: Strabo’s Mountains 63
1 Introduction: Landscape Narratives 63
2 Mountains in the Geographical Tradition 66
3 Spain and the Alps 72
4 Italy and Greece 76
5 Pontus 82
6 Conclusion 84
Bibliography 85
4 Christina G. Williamson: Mountain, Myth, and Territory: Teuthrania as Focal Point in the Landscape of Pergamon 87
1 Introduction 87
2 The Telephus Myth and Teuthrania 90
3 Teuthrania and Attalid Monuments 92
4 The Visual Region of Kalerga Tepe/Teuthrania 96
5 Foregrounding Teuthrania and the Perception of Territory 107
6 Conclusion—Mythical Landscapes and Political Territories 110
Bibliography 111
‎Part 2: Underground and Underworld 118
5 Julie Baleriaux: Diving Underground: Giving Meaning to Subterranean Rivers 120
1 Introduction 120
2 Empirical Observation of Subterranean Rivers in Greece 121
3 Rationalizing Subterranean Rivers 124
4 Where Does the Water Go? Imagining the Underworld 126
4.1 Access to the Realm of the Dead 127
4.2 ‘Loathsome and Dank’ 130
5 Conclusion: Geographical aitia for the Realm of the Dead 134
Bibliography 136
6 Kathrin Winter: Experience and Stimmung: Landscapes of the Underworld in Seneca’s Plays 139
1 Introduction 139
2 Going Down to Hell: Sensory Perceptions, Corporality, and Space 141
3 The Stimmung of the Underworld 145
4 Defamiliarization 152
5 Ascending Again: Stimmung and ‘Attunement’ 156
6 Conclusion 160
Bibliography 162
‎Part 3: The Sacred 166
7 Margaret M. Miles: Birds around the Temple: Constructing a Sacred Environment 168
1 Introduction 168
2 Landscape 169
2.1 Setting, Site, and Orientation 169
2.2 The Nighttime Sky of Greece 172
2.3 Terrestrial Considerations 173
2.4 New and Ideal Cities: Where Shall I Found Temples? 176
3 Seascape: Sanctuaries on Sea Routes 178
4 Local Environments: Trees and Groves, Sacred Plants 187
5 Sacred Animals, Wild and Free 193
6 Sensory Experience in a Sacred Environment 200
7 Conclusion 203
Bibliography 205
8 Rianne Hermans: Juno Sospita and the draco: Myth, Image, and Ritual in the Landscape of the Alban Hills 213
1 Introduction 213
2 Juno Sospita as a patrona of Lanuvium and Rome 214
3 The Goddess and the Serpent 221
4 Early-Christian Serpent Slayers 227
5 Material Representations of the draco 230
6 A Physical Cave for the draco? 232
7 Conclusion 240
Bibliography 241
9 Betsey A. Robinson: Charismatic Landscapes? Scenes from Central Greece under Roman Rule 245
1 Introduction: On Charisma 245
2 Commemorating Charisma: The Vale of the Muses 248
3 Charismatic Chorography: Living Rock, Water, Air 253
4 Conclusions 264
Bibliography 265
‎Part 4: Battlefields and Memory of War 270
10 Elizabeth Minchin: Heritage in the Landscape: The ‘Heroic Tumuli’ in the Troad Region 272
1 Introduction 272
2 The Hero’s Tomb in the Iliad 273
3 The Tumuli of Ajax, Protesilaus, Patroclus, and Achilles 275
4 Tourists and Pilgrims, Ancient and Modern 281
5 Tour Guides and Informants 284
6 Landscape and Memory—Again 286
7 Conclusion 287
Bibliography 290
11 Bettina Reitz-Joosse: Land at Peace and Sea at War: Landscape and the Memory of Actium in Greek Epigrams and Propertius’ Elegies 293
1 Introduction 293
2 A Landscape of Victory: Nicopolis and the Actian Monuments 294
3 Healing Nature: Remembering the Actian War in Greek Epigram 300
4 The monumenta of the Sea in Propertius’Elegies 305
5 Conclusion 310
Bibliography 311
12 Annemarie Ambühl: Thessaly as an Intertextual Landscape of Civil War in Latin Poetry 314
1 Introduction 314
2 Thessalia Infelix: Thessaly as a Historical and Literary Landscape of Civil War 315
2.1 Mountains, Rivers, and Towns: The Transformation of the 318
2.2 Damnata fatis tellus: Thessaly as the Land of the War-God 322
2.3 Romani bustum populi: Ploughing the Civil-War Soil Over and Over Again 325
3 Conclusion: umbrarum campi 331
Bibliography 332
‎Part 5: Moving Around 340
13 Danielle L. Kellogg: Migration and Landscapes of Value in Attica 342
1 Introduction 342
2 Methodology 344
3 Migration in Rural Attica: The Statistical Evidence 347
4 Immigration versus Emigration: Microregional Tendencies and the Conceptual Landscape 351
5 Immigration versus Emigration: The Effects of Topography and the Built Environment 353
6 Migration and the Athenian Sociopolitical System: Some Further Ramifications 356
7 Conclusions 361
Bibliography 362
14 Maša Ćulumović: Songs of Homecoming: Sites of Victories and Celebrations in Pindar’s Victory Odes 366
1 Introduction 366
2 An Introductory Example: Olympian 5 370
3 Geography of Praise 376
3.1 Olympian 1 376
3.2 Olympian 9 380
3.3 Pythian 11 383
3.4 Geographies of Space: Other Examples 385
4 Metaphors of Movement 388
5 Pointing as a Spatial Guide 390
6 Local Landscapes 393
7 Conclusion 396
Bibliography 397
15 Lissa Crofton-Sleigh: The Mythical Landscapers of Augustan Rome 400
1 Introduction 400
2 The Vergilian Hercules and Cacus 403
2.1 Vergil’s Characterization of Cacus 403
2.2 The domus Caci 404
2.3 Evander’s Focalization 407
2.4 Hercules as Proto-Roman Landscaper 409
3 Hercules and Augustan Rome 412
4 Hercules and Cacus in Ovid 415
5 Conclusion 420
Bibliography 421
16 Christoph Pieper: Polyvalent Tomi: Ovid’s Landscape of Relegation and the Romanization of the Black Sea Region 425
1 Introduction 425
2 The Fragmenting Place: Tomi 427
3 Roman Expansion into the ultima terra 432
4 Romanization Failed? 436
5 Romanization or Acculturation? 439
6 Conclusion 443
Bibliography 444
17 Greta Hawes: Stones, Names, Stories, and Bodies: Pausanias before the Walls of Seven-Gated Thebes 448
1 Introduction 448
2 Stones 451
3 Names 455
4 Stories 460
5 Bodies 465
6 Conclusion 470
Bibliography 472
‎Index of Greek Terms 476
‎Index of Latin Terms 478
‎Index Locorum 480
‎General Index 497

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