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Zusatztext Readers will come to this volume for diverse reasons -- Herodotean scholarship, literary criticism, spatial theory, and/or new "mapping" technologies -- and the editors are to be commended for seeing through their initial vision for a volume that brings together various strategies for re-imagining how the ancient Greeks and Romans conceived of their world. Informationen zum Autor Elton Barker is a Reader in Classical Studies at the Open University.Stefan Bouzarovski is a Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Urban Energy and Resilience at the University of Manchester.Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford.Dr Leif Isaksen is a Senior Lecturer in History and Digital Humanities at Lancaster University. Klappentext Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, New Worlds from Old Texts explores ancient Greek perceptions of space, and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view. Zusammenfassung Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, New Worlds from Old Texts explores ancient Greek perceptions of space, and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Texts, Maps, Ideas: Ancient Greek Representations of Space 1: Oliver Thomas: Greek Hymnic Spaces 2: Donald Murray¿: The Waters at the Ends of the World: Herodotus and Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography 3: Paola Ceccarelli: Map, Catalogue, Drama, Narrative: Representations of the Aegean Space 4: Mathieu de Bakker: An Uneasy Smile: Herodotus on Saps and the Question of How to View the World 5: Tim Rood: Mapping Spatial and Temporal Distance in Herodotus and Thucydides 6: Kathryn Stevens: From Herodotus to a 'Hellenistic' World? The Eastern Geographies of Aristotle and Theophrastus Part 2: The Hestia Project: Towards a Narrative Geography of Herodotus' Histories 7: Stefan Bouzarovski and Elton Barker: Between East and West: Movements and Transformations in Herodotean Topology 8: Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen, and Jessica Ogden: Telling Stories with Maps: Exploring Herodotean Geography through Digital Tools 9: Elton Barker and Christopher Pelling: Space-travelling in Herodotus Book 5 Part 3: Technologies, Methodologies, Theories: Contemporary Approaches to Mapping Space 10: Tom Brughmans and Jeroen Poblome: Pots in Space: An Exploratory and Geographical Network Analysis of Roman Pottery Distribution 11: Lin Foxhall and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: Tracing Networks: Technological Knowledge, Cultural Contact and Knowledge Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond 12: Øyvind Eide: Verbal Expressions of Geographical Information Epilogue: A View from the Boundary Bibliography Index ...
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: Texts, Maps, Ideas: Ancient Greek Representations of Space
- 1: Oliver Thomas: Greek Hymnic Spaces
- 2: Donald Murray_: The Waters at the Ends of the World: Herodotus and Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography
- 3: Paola Ceccarelli: Map, Catalogue, Drama, Narrative: Representations of the Aegean Space
- 4: Mathieu de Bakker: An Uneasy Smile: Herodotus on Saps and the Question of How to View the World
- 5: Tim Rood: Mapping Spatial and Temporal Distance in Herodotus and Thucydides
- 6: Kathryn Stevens: From Herodotus to a 'Hellenistic' World? The Eastern Geographies of Aristotle and Theophrastus
- Part 2: The Hestia Project: Towards a Narrative Geography of Herodotus' Histories
- 7: Stefan Bouzarovski and Elton Barker: Between East and West: Movements and Transformations in Herodotean Topology
- 8: Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen, and Jessica Ogden: Telling Stories with Maps: Exploring Herodotean Geography through Digital Tools
- 9: Elton Barker and Christopher Pelling: Space-travelling in Herodotus Book 5
- Part 3: Technologies, Methodologies, Theories: Contemporary Approaches to Mapping Space
- 10: Tom Brughmans and Jeroen Poblome: Pots in Space: An Exploratory and Geographical Network Analysis of Roman Pottery Distribution
- 11: Lin Foxhall and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: Tracing Networks: Technological Knowledge, Cultural Contact and Knowledge Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond
- 12: Øyvind Eide: Verbal Expressions of Geographical Information
- Epilogue: A View from the Boundary
- Bibliography
- Index
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A shared vision about the need to contemplate space in new ways, Herodotus' Histories as a common arena for deliberation, and the potential of digital humanities to open new lines of research embody the three thematic axes of the book. Also, due to the frequent cross-references across chapters, the volume bears the mark of a genuinely interdisciplinary debate. All of this effec-tively entices the reader to mull over spatiality in Antiquity in a less (post-Enlightenment) cartographic manner. C. Hernandez Garcés
