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Theocritus Av William G. (professor Emeritus Of Classics And Comparative Literature Professor Emeritus Of Classics And Comparative Literature Universi

Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire discusses many of Theocritus''s Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct space¿its contours and borders, along with the people, animals, and objects that fill it¿and the equally important role of absence. Drawing on spatial theory from anthropology and cultural geography, author William G. Thalmann studies each poem in itself and in its connections with other poems, so that a loose coherence emergesamong them. Spatially, the Ptolemaic empire provides a setting and reference point for the various types of Idylls (bucolic, urban, mythological, and encomiastic poems), in ways that help legitimate it. In all the idylls, however, space is constructed selectively from particular perspectives, so that it reflects andshapes people''s relations with each other and humans'' relations with nature. The bucolic Idylls in particular raise questions about being in and out of place and relations between self and other that would have been important under

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