Pasts of Roman Anatolia - Interpreters, Traces, Horizons

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Interpreters; 3. Traces; 4. Horizons; 5. Beyond Anatolia; 6. The past in things: ancient archaeophilia and modern archaeology.

About the author

Felipe Rojas is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Brown University. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Research Institute, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, and the Turkish Cultural Foundation.

Summary

The book is aimed at readers interested in the eastern Mediterranean during the Roman period. It examines what the Romans and their contemporaries thought about ruins and other physical traces of even older pasts, including, for example, the city of Troy, the fossilized bones of prehistoric creatures, and cuneiform and hieroglyphs.

Product details

• Authors: Felipe Rojas, Felipe (Brown University Rojas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781108484886
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48488-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Asia, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Turkey, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Archaeology by period / region, Mediterranean countries, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, The arts: general topics