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World and hour in Roman minds : exploratory essays
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ISBN: 9780197606360 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press

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World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian Richard Talbert presents here a cohesive selection of nineteen essays, published over the course of thirty years, all but one previously appearing in widely scattered publications. Now reinforced by an Introduction and textually and visually updated, these essays document the progress of pioneering efforts to glimpse the worldviews of Romans up and down the social scale--even Julius Caesar and Claudius--and to reassess the communicative role of Roman mapping along with its strengths and limitations.Talbert interprets the Antonine Itinerary and Artemidorus and Peutinger maps afresh, visualizing the latter with a wider perspective than in previous scholarship and probing the challenges of its design, production and copying. He also casts doubt, however, on the idea that Romans conceptualized their long-distance roads as an interconnected system, as did certain comparable premodern states across the Americas and Asia.The most recent essays share findings that emerge with a shift of focus from space to time, specifically Romans' daily timekeeping by hours--another neglected dimension of their social mentalité. Talbert suggests that Romans' tracking of time should be regarded as uncannily similar to that of the Japanese before Westernization. Throughout, the essays are unified by the methods applied. The value of broader, often comparative, approaches is demonstrated, as well as the creative potential of untapped testimony and digital technology--altogether an invaluable platform to stimulate further inquiry.


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The Senate of Imperial Rome
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ISBN: 9781400849765 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Mercury's wings : exploring modes of communication in the Ancient World
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ISBN: 9780195386844 0195386841 0190663286 0199983410 0190604042 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first-ever volume of essays devoted to ancient communications. Comparable previous work has been mainly confined to articles on aspects of communication in the Roman empire. This set of 18 essays with an introduction by the co-editors marks a milestone, therefore, that demonstrates the importance and rich further potential of the topic. The authors, who include art historians, Assyriologists, Classicists and Egyptologists, take the broad view of communications as a vehicle not just for the transmission of information, but also for the conduct of religion, commerce, and culture. Encompassed within this scope are varied purposes of communication such as propaganda and celebration, as well as profit and administration. Each essay deals with a communications network, or with a means or type of communication, or with the special features of religious communication or communication in and among large empires.

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Communication --- History. --- History


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Pliny the Elder's world : Natural History, Books 2-6
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ISBN: 1108592759 1108481752 9781108592758 9781108481755 110867688X 9781108723220 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Pliny's World offers readers a translation of the Natural History's opening books unprecedented for its completeness, accuracy and accessibility. Here, in quirky, often breathless style, Pliny lays the foundation of a hugely influential encyclopedia with coverage of the universe, stars, planets and moon, followed by earth's climate and then its physical and human geography. From Rome as ruling centerpoint, Pliny surveys the known world and its countless peoples in a vast arc from the Atlantic to Sri Lanka, embracing the Danube, Euphrates and Nile lands, Atlas and Caucasus mountains, Germany, Africa, Arabia, India. Passages from later books further illustrating his geographical grasp are appended, on topics as varied as wine, water, trees, birds and fish. Throughout, Pliny's frank expression of strong opinions about religion, distorted human values, abuse of the environment (and more) reveal uncannily modern preoccupations. His work remained an inspirational resource through the Renaissance, and still fascinates today.


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Cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages : fresh perspectives, new methods
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ISBN: 1282601490 9786612601491 9047443195 9789047443193 9004166637 9789004166639 9789004166639 9781282601499 6612601493 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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In scope, this book matches The History of Cartography , volume 1 (1987) edited by Brian Harley and David Woodward. Now, twenty years after the appearance of that seminal work, classicists and medievalists from Europe and North America highlight, distill and reflect on the remarkably productive progress made since in many different areas of the study of maps. The interaction between experts on antiquity and on the Middle Ages evident in the thirteen contributions offers a guide to the future and illustrates close relationships in the evolving practice of cartography over the first millennium and a half of the Christian era. Contributors are Emily Albu, Raymond Clemens, Lucy Donkin, Evelyn Edson, Tom Elliott, Patrick Gauthier Dalché, Benjamin Kedar, Maja Kominko, Natalia Lozovsky, Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith, Camille Serchuk, Richard Talbert, and Jennifer Trimble.

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Cartography --- Early maps. --- History.

Plutarch on Sparta.
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ISBN: 0140444637 Year: 2000 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books

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Pliny the Elder's world : Natural History, Books 2-6
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ISBN: 9781108592758 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages : fresh perspectives, new methods
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ISBN: 9789004166639 9004166637 Year: 2008 Volume: 10 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston Brill


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Geography and ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies
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ISBN: 9781405191463 144431565X 9781444315660 1444315668 1405191465 1282461656 9786612461651 Year: 2010 Volume: *7 Publisher: Oxford Wiley-Blackwell

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This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of DiscoveryProvides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient IndiaExplores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials


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Aspects of ancient institutions and geography : studies in honor of Richard J.A. Talbert
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ISBN: 9789004283718 9004283714 9789004283725 9004283722 1322343667 Year: 2015 Volume: 19 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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"In Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography, colleagues and students honor Richard J.A. Talbert for his numerous contributions and influence on the fields of ancient history, political and social science, as well as cartography and geography. This collection of original and useful examinations is focused around the core theme of Talbert's work--how ancient individuals and groups organized their world, through their institutions and geography. The first half of the book considers institutional history in chapters on such diverse topics as the Roman Senate, Roman provincial politics and administration, healing springs, gladiators, and soldiers. Chapters on the geography of Thucydides and Alexander III, imperial geography, tracking letters and using sundials round out the second half of the book"--Provided by publisher.

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