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The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. 'The Folds of Olympus' is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a millennium - from Homer to the early Christian saints. Aimed at readers of ancient history and literature as well as those interested in mountains and the environment, the book offers a powerful account of the landscape at the heart of much Greek and Roman culture.

Classical literature --- Mountains in literature. --- Mountains --- Civilization, Classical. --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Littérature ancienne --- Montagnes dans la littérature. --- Civilisation ancienne. --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Histoire et critique. --- Mountains in popular culture. --- Mountains in art.

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There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the 'encyclopaedia', and showing instead how the rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive compilation left their mark on a surprising range of texts. In the process it draws attention to both remarkable similarities and striking differences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different periods, with a focus primarily on European/Mediterranean culture. The book covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic) and Renaissance culture in turn, and combines chapters which survey whole periods with others focused closely on individual texts as case studies.

Civilisation --- Science --- Ancient history --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Encyclopedists. --- Learning and scholarship --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Renaissance. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Civilization, Ancient --- Civilization, Medieval --- Encyclopedists --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Lexicography --- Medieval civilization --- Chivalry --- Ancient civilization --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities

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The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its own purposes. This fascinating collection of essays considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society, drawing on, developing and critiquing a range of modern cultural theories (including those of Michel Foucault and Edward Said). How was knowledge shaped into textual forms, and how did those forms encode relationships between emperor and subjects, theory and practice, Roman and Greek, centre and periphery? Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire will be required reading for those concerned with the intellectual and cultural history of the Roman Empire, and its lasting legacy in the medieval world and beyond.

Knowledge, Theory of --- History. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- History --- Knowledge management --- Learning and scholarship --- Writing --- Rome --- Intellectual life --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Vie intellectuelle --- Information organization --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Knowledge, Theory of (Sociology) --- Sociology of knowledge --- Communication --- Public opinion --- Sociology --- Social epistemology --- Information storage and retrieval --- Organization of information --- Information science --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Intellectual life. --- Arts and Humanities --- Knowledge management - Rome --- Learning and scholarship - Rome --- Writing - History - To 1500 --- Rome - Intellectual life

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Athletic training and athletic competition were key features of ancient Greek life for more than 1,000 years, from the foundation of the Olympic festival in the eighth century BC into the Roman period. Recent years have seen an enormous growth in scholarship on the subject, and in undergraduate teaching, but many seminal articles remain inaccessible, especially to English-speaking readers. This volume brings together for the first time a collection of important pieces and extracts on core themes, covering gymnasium education, festival competition and victory, the role of athletic activity in conceptions of ancient identity, and the reception of the ancient athletic heritage in the modern world. FeaturesFour of the twelve pieces are translated for the first time from French and Germancontains an extensive introduction covering key issues for study and researchbrief editorial discussions of each of the articles are included.

Sports --- History.

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The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. But books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.

Libraries --- History --- Arts and Humanities