Rome's World - The Peutinger Map Reconsidered

Informationen zum Autor Richard J. A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has taken the lead in establishing the Ancient World Mapping Center. He is the author of several books, including The Senate of Imperial Rome and the collaborative Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Klappentext A long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the Peutinger Map as a masterpiece both of mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology. Zusammenfassung The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Richard Talbert provides a long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the map as a masterpiece of both mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology enabling readers to engage with it more closely than ever before. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The surviving copy: history, publication, scholarship; 2. The surviving copy: the material object and its palaeography; 3. Design and character of the map; 4. Recovery of the original map from the surviving copy; 5. The original map; Conclusion: the map's place in classical and medieval cartography.

Product details

• Authors: Richard J A Talbert, Richard J. A. Talbert, Richard J. A. (University of North Carolina Talbert, Richard J.A. Talbert
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521764803
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76480-3
• Dimensions: 185 mm x 262 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Historical Geography, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Cartography, map-making and projections, BCE to c 500 CE, Historical Geography, BCE period – Protohistory