ISBN:
9781350118201
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Series Statement:
IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
398.4690916386
Keywords:
Civilization, Western-Classical influences
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Scylla and Charybdis (Greek mythology)
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Notes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Strait of Homer and the Strait of Reality -- 2.1 Methodology: Textuality, historiography, ethnography -- 2.2 The exceptional landscape: Myth and history -- 2.3 The South-as-Greece: Hellenicism -- 2.4 Constructing place: The mediated and the real -- 2.5 Projecting identities: Banal identitarianism -- 3 Chronotopes of Hellas: The StraitDuring the Grand Tour -- 3.1 Geographies of Graeco-Roman mythology -- 3.2 Cartographies of Homeric landmarks -- 3.3 Maps of monsters: The feminine asnature's beauty and dread -- 3.4 Southernizing the landscape: Europe and its Others -- 3.5 From the travelogues to tourism -- 4 Mediterranean Place-Myths -- 4.1 Travel, exploration and mythological journeys -- 4.2 On the track of Odysseus: The Homeric Mediterranean -- 4.3 Italy from the sky: The picturesque South -- 4.4 Vistas of stillness: Greater Greece and Mediterraneanism -- 4.5 Playing Odysseus: The literary travellers -- 5 Myths of Myths: Mapping the Odyssey -- 5.1 Homeric geographies: Between epos and history -- 5.2 Contested mappings: Traditionalists, revisionists, heretics -- 5.3 Observations and expectations -- 5.4 The viper fish and the whirlpool: Claiming Homer in the Strait -- 5.5 Experiencing the sea of myths -- 6 Materializing Heritage: Tourism in Scilla -- 6.1 Symbolic accretion and pervasive heritage -- 6.2 Tourism in Scilla town -- 6.3 From the ground: Expectations and disappointments -- 6.4 The canon and the environment -- 6.5 Monumentalizing antiquity -- 7 Denizens of the Odyssey: Greater Greece in the Strait -- 7.1 The Greeks and the 'rabble': Popular histories of the Strait -- 7.2 Greece and its Others: Dominant historiographies -- 7.3 Foundational fathers: Homer in Reggio.
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