Oppian''s Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos at large and on the lessons we can learn from fish. Using a combination of close reading and wider interpretative lenses this book examines the literary texture and cultural relevance of the Halieutica by analysing its sophisticated refraction of earlier literary-critical theories and hexameter traditions its commentary on human-animal relations and its contribution to imperial Greek literary political and cultural debates. The book demonstrates the importance and cultural centrality of this understudied Greek didactic epic; it is written for students and scholars of imperial Greek literature and culture (including the ancient novel) ancient heroic and didactic epics and those interested in human-animal relations in the ancient world.
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