City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity

The third in a Series that explores cultural and ethical values in classical antiquity, this volume examines the dichotomy between 'city' and 'country' as markers of value in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Fifteen chapters address a variety of topics on this theme from different perspectives - archaeological, iconographic, historical, literary and philosophical. The book demonstrates the great rhetorical flexibility in the uses of 'city' and 'country-side', and the gap that separates discourse from historical reality. The common rhetoric of polarity that tended to construct city and countryside as distinct, oppositional categories turns out to mask a network of great ideological variety. Book jacket.Rosen, Ralph M. is the author of 'City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity ', published 2006 under ISBN 9789004150430 and ISBN 9004150439.