The nineteen essays in World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays encapsulate Talbert's pioneering efforts to penetrate Romans' elusive consciousness of space and time. The range spans itineraries, maps, boundary markers, roads, sundials, and veterans' certificates.
The nineteen essays in World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays encapsulate Talbert's pioneering efforts to penetrate Romans' elusive consciousness of space and time. The range spans itineraries, maps, boundary markers, roads, sundials, and veterans' certificates.
Richard J. A. Talbert is Research Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has edited the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World and authored Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered as well as Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand.
Inhaltsangabe
* Abbreviations * Introduction * Part I: World and Empire in the Mind's Eye * 1. Oswald Dilke's Greek and Roman Maps (1985) * 2. China and Rome: The Awareness of Space * 3. Grasp of Geography in Caesar's War Narratives * 4. Trevor Murphy's Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia (2004) * 5. An English Translation of Pliny's Geographical Books for the Twenty-First Century * 6. Boundaries Within the Roman Empire * 7. Rome's Provinces as Framework for Worldview * 8. Worldview Reflected in Roman Military Diplomas * 9. Author, Audience and the Roman Empire in the Antonine Itinerary * 10. John Matthews' The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East (2006) * Part II: Maps for Whom and Why * 11. The Unfinished State of the Artemidorus Map: What is Missing, and Why? * 12. Claudius' Use of a Map in the Roman Senate * 13. Cartography and Taste in Peutinger's Roman Map * 14. Peutinger's Map: The Physical Landscape Framework * 15. Copyists' Engagement with the Peutinger Map * Part III: From Space to Time * 16 Roads Not Featured: A Roman Failure to Communicate? * 17. Roads in the Roman World: Strategy for the Way Forward * 18. Communicating Through Maps: The Roman Case * 19. Roman Concern to Know the Hour in Broader Historical Context * Bibliography * Index
* Abbreviations * Introduction * Part I: World and Empire in the Mind's Eye * 1. Oswald Dilke's Greek and Roman Maps (1985) * 2. China and Rome: The Awareness of Space * 3. Grasp of Geography in Caesar's War Narratives * 4. Trevor Murphy's Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia (2004) * 5. An English Translation of Pliny's Geographical Books for the Twenty-First Century * 6. Boundaries Within the Roman Empire * 7. Rome's Provinces as Framework for Worldview * 8. Worldview Reflected in Roman Military Diplomas * 9. Author, Audience and the Roman Empire in the Antonine Itinerary * 10. John Matthews' The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East (2006) * Part II: Maps for Whom and Why * 11. The Unfinished State of the Artemidorus Map: What is Missing, and Why? * 12. Claudius' Use of a Map in the Roman Senate * 13. Cartography and Taste in Peutinger's Roman Map * 14. Peutinger's Map: The Physical Landscape Framework * 15. Copyists' Engagement with the Peutinger Map * Part III: From Space to Time * 16 Roads Not Featured: A Roman Failure to Communicate? * 17. Roads in the Roman World: Strategy for the Way Forward * 18. Communicating Through Maps: The Roman Case * 19. Roman Concern to Know the Hour in Broader Historical Context * Bibliography * Index
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