Acknowledgments | | ix | |
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Introduction | | 1 | (6) |
| Wandering in Space and Time |
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| On the Deep, at the Edges |
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| Pains and Privations of Wandering |
| | 24 | (18) |
| ``For Mortals, Nothing Is Worse than Wandering'' |
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| Madness: Wandering with No Return |
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| Wandering and the Human Condition |
| | 42 | (20) |
| Homo Viator: Before Philosophy |
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| The ``Fault'' of Odysseus |
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| Do Not Forget Your Wanderings: Odysseus under Circe's Spell |
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| To Judge and to Deceive: The Wandering of the Gods |
| | 62 | (29) |
| Wandering and Divine Power |
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| Demeter's Destructive Wandering |
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| Wandering Enfants Terribles: Eros and Hermes |
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| Itinerant Sages in Archaic and Classical Greece |
| | 91 | (27) |
| Wandering, Lying, and Poetry |
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| The Aura of Wandering: Xenophanes and Empedocles |
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| Wandering for the Sake of Profit: From Homer to the Sophists |
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| Choosing to Be Odysseus: Herodotus and Ionian Theoria |
| | 118 | (29) |
| The Excitement of Theoria in Fifth-Century Athens |
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| Wanderers Discover the World |
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| To Observe and to Collect |
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| Wandering Writing and Truthfulness in Herodotus's Histories |
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| Wandering Along the Journey to Truth: From Parmenides to Plato |
| | 147 | (33) |
| Parmenides' ``Unwandering'' Journey to Being |
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| In Search of Wisdom: Plato's Presentation of Socrates' Wandering |
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| Plato on Traveling and Wisdom |
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| Between Ascent and Navigation |
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| Walking, Sitting, and Standing |
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| In Praise of Homeless Wandering: The Cynics |
| | 180 | (24) |
| Diogenes, the Outcast of Tragedy |
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| Cynic Wandering in Greco-Roman Literature |
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| Dio Chrysostom's Self-Presentation as a Wandering Philosopher |
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| The World as Home: Cosmic Citizens and Godlike Travelers |
| | 204 | (17) |
| Stay Where You Are Stationed, Go Where You Are Sent: The Stoics on Wandering |
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| The Godlike Wanderings of Apollonius of Tyana in Philostratus's Life of Apollonius |
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| Wandering in the Greek Novel |
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| The Meaning of ``Home'' in One's Journey: From Apollonius's Argonautica to the Novel |
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| The Ruler of Wandering: Fortune or Providence? |
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| Wandering, Fiction, and Storytelling |
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Epilogue: What Greek Wanderers Did Not Do | | 263 | (6) |
Bibliography | | 269 | (16) |
Index | | 285 | |