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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the "textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories characteristic for textual description – as far as possible for them. This process is shown by examples from the works of Xenophon, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Philitas of Kos and Archimedes. The author also tries to show some of the consequences that the phenomenon of the Hellenistic textualization of experience had for the later epochs of European culture.

"Landscape and place are currently important topics in the study of classical literature. This volume examines how ancient Greeks of the archaic and classical period used geography in literary contexts, and how the representation of place in texts can be linked to contemporary social practices. The contributors explore how the Greeks related to the spaces and places around them and how they invested these places with meaning. They use examples from key texts in ancient Greek literature and treat a variety of textual places, from the intimate to the expansive, including the bedroom, ritual space, law courts, theatrical space, the city, and the landscape of war. Collectively, the essays demonstrate the important relationships--such as body and place, landscape and identity, ritual and space--that emerge from close analysis of the texts"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Abbreviations -- Signs and Symbols -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- Introduction / Passa, Enzo / Tribulato, Olga -- Bibliography of Albio Cesare Cassio -- Unconventional Features in Homer: The Case of ἑέ and ἑοῖ / Kaczko, Sara -- σθένεϊ βλεμεαίνων: Origin and Evolution of a Homeric Formula / Willi, Andreas -- Active versus Middle Perfect in Homeric Greek: Synchrony and Diachrony / Beek, Lucien van / Migliori, Laura -- Empedocles in the West, Panyassis in the East: Doric and Hexameter Poetry in the Classical Age / Passa, Enzo -- Of Land, Ancestral Property and Prophecy in Corinna PMG 654 col. iii ll. 37–39 / Prauscello, Lucia -- Epicharmus and Choral Lyric Poetry: A Reappraisal of Old and New Evidence / Favi, Federico -- Early Dactylic Prose in the History of Greek Prose Rhythm / Vatri, Alessandro -- Gk. ταπεινός 'Low(-lying)' and Its IE Heritage: Gk. PN Τέμπυρα, Hitt. dampu- 'Blunt', Old Russ. tupъ 'Blunt, Stupid' / Serangeli, Matilde -- Prose and Poetry of Pain: A History of the Term ἄλγος / Cerroni, Enrico -- Making the Case for a Linguistic Investigation of Greek Lexicography: Some Examples from the Byzantine Reception of Atticist Lemmas / Tribulato, Olga -- List of Contributors -- Index of Notable Words -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Passages