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

List of Contributors     ix
General Introduction     1
City-Country Relationships in the 'Normal Polis'     13
On the Border: Sacred Land and the Margins of the Community     33
Lack of Boundaries, Absence of Oppositions: The City-Countryside Continuum of a Greek Pantheon     61
Farming, Authority, and Truth-Telling in the Greek Tradition     93
Herodotus on Survival: City or Countryside?     119
At Home, Round Here, Out There: The City and Tragic Space     139
The Wall in Aristophanes' Birds     173
Agroikia and Pleasure in Aristotle     181
Comic Aischrology and the Urbanization of Agroikia     219
Horace's Garden Thoughts: Rural Retreats and the Urban Imagination     239
Dido in her Settings: Carthage and Environs     275
City and Countryside in Vergil's Eclogues     297
Martial Between Rome and Bilbilis     327
The Bearded Rustic of Roman Attica     349
Index of Greek Terms     369
Index of Ladn Terms     371
Index Locorum     372
General Index     380