Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity Hollis Dawn
Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity Hollis Dawn Throughout the longue dure of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real…
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Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity Hollis Dawn
Throughout the longue dure of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? It highlights the ongoing relevance of ancient understandings of mountain environments to the postclassical and present-day world, while also suggesting ways in which modern approaches to landscape can generate new questions about premodern responses. In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed - or stayed the same?Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient and modern engagements with mountains.
Throughout, essays It brings together experts from across many different disciplines and periods, offering case studies on topics ranging from classical Greek drama to Renaissance art, and from early modern natural philosophy to nineteenth-century travel writing.
Poems from Greek Antiquity