The Epic City

Informationen zum Autor Annette L. Giesecke is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware. Klappentext Hephaistos created an ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's centre lay two walled cities! one at war and one at peace! surrounded by fields and pasturelands. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal! or utopian! social order! the Shield reveals that restraining and taming Nature would be fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. Zusammenfassung Restraining and taming Nature was fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. Classical Athens, with her utilitarian view of Nature, exemplified this ideal, which also informed the urban endeavors of Rome and was expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens, and through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature.

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Hephaistos created an ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's centre lay two walled cities, one at war and one at peace, surrounded by fields and pasturelands. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal, or utopian, social order, the Shield reveals that restraining and taming Nature would be fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest.

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Restraining and taming Nature was fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. Classical Athens, with her utilitarian view of Nature, exemplified this ideal, which also informed the urban endeavors of Rome and was expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens, and through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature.