World and hour in Roman minds exploratory essays
"Talbert presents a cohesive selection of nineteen 'essays' (articles and reviews) written over the past thirty years, all but one previously appearing in widely scattered publications. Now reinforced by an Introduction, updating and additional illustrations, they primarily document t...
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Oxford University Press
[2023]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- (Part I: World and Empire in the Mind's Eye)
- Oswald Dilke's Greek and Roman maps (1985)
- China and Rome: the awareness of space
- Grasp of geography in Caesar's war narratives
- Trevor Murphy's Pliny the Elder's natural history: the empire in the Encyclopedia (2004)
- An English translation of Pliny's geographical books for the twenty-first century
- Boundaries Within the Roman Empire
- Rome's provinces as framework for worldview
- Worldview reflected in Roman military diplomas
- Author, audience and the Roman Empire in the Antonine itinerary
- John Matthews' The Journey of Theophanes: travel, business, and daily life in the Roman East (2006)
- (Part II: Maps for Whom and Why)
- The unfinished state of the Artemidorus Map: what is missing, and why?
- Claudius' use of a map in the Roman Senate
- Cartography and taste in Peutinger's Roman map
- Peutinger's map: the physical landscape framework
- Copyists' engagement with the Peutinger map
- (Part III: From Space to Time)
- Roads not featured: a Roman failure to communicate?
- Roads in the Roman world: strategy for the way forward
- Communicating through maps: the Roman case
- Roman concern to know the hour in broader historical context
- Bibliography
- Ancient texts and maps
- Modern scholarship
- Index