Dawn Hollis is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St Andrews, UK, working with Jason König on a Leverhulme Trust research project entitled ‘Mountains in Ancient Literature and their Postclassical Reception’. Her work on the history of mountains has appeared in Alpinist and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. Jason König is Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has published widely on the Greek literature of the Roman empire. He is currently working on a book on mountains in the literature and culture of the ancient Mediterranean.
Given the tremendous variety of the topics covered in this collection, even non-specialists can expect to find something of potential interest, from classical myths to late antique or medieval religious figures, from early modern English legends to 18th- and 19th-century travelers' accounts, to the US politician Thomas Jefferson's renowned mountain retreat Monticello. * Mountain Research and Development * [Hollis and Koenig] not only expand and complicate the modern conceptualisation of the cultural meaning of mountains, but their dialogic approach significantly revises many current historical and literary assumptions. * The Classical Review * The appreciation of mountains in the premodern era, traditionally dismissed by scholars, is given a fresh longue-duree perspective in Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity that moreover shows how in later periods mountains were viewed through the lens of the classical past. -- Christina Williamson, Assistant Professor in Ancient History, University of Groningen, The Netherlands