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About This Book
Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos at large, and on the lessons we can learn from fish. Using a combination of close reading and wider interpretative lenses, this book examines the literary texture and cultural relevance of the Halieutica by analysing its sophisticated refraction of earlier literary-critical theories and hexameter traditions, its commentary on human-animal relations, and its contribution to imperial Greek literary, political, and cultural debates. The book demonstrates the importance and cultural centrality of this understudied Greek didactic epic; it is written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel), ancient heroic and didactic epics, and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: On Fishing
- Part I Didactic Poetry
- Part II Morality at Sea
- Part III Humans and Animals
- Part IV The World Is a Sea
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index Locorum