Space in Archaic Greek Lyric: City, Countryside and Sea - Paperback

by Jo Heirman (Author)

From the end of the twentieth century onwards space has become a 'hot topic' in literary studies. This thesis contributes to the spatial turn by focusing on space in archaic Greek lyric (7th-5th c bc).

Author Biography

Jo Heirman ========== Jo Heirman was educated at Ghent University (Belgium), where he obtained a Master's Degree in Classics in 2008. In 2008 he was appointed as a PhD-researcher for a project of Irene de Jong on 'Space in Ancient Greek Literature' at the University of Amsterdam. He has written several articles on space which combine classics and literary theory. By the end of 2012 he will have edited a conference volume on the ideological role of space in ancient and modern literature with Jacqueline Klooster (The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literature: Ancient and Modern, Academia Press Ghent).