Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 2747200
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108892728
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- ISBN
- 9781108892728
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph represents eight years’ intensive research on Oppian’s Halieutica, a once-popular but long underappreciated five-book imperial Greek didactic poem. It offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic, exploring its sophistication, scope, and cultural centrality. The book comprises eleven substantial chapters (totalling 200,000 words) that contextualise the poem within a range of ancient perspectives and debates (the Greek literature and culture of the Roman empire; ancient literary criticism; theory and practice of didactic poetry; ancient hexameter poetry and its reception), as well as addressing the poem’s place within ancient (and modern) attitudes towards human-animal relations.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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