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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.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
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.
Testo aggiuntivo
A delightful landscape of Talbert's studies displayed as a collection of important milestones in modern scholarship. This academic journey through part of Talbert's rich and brilliant career is joined by Julius Caesar, Pliny the Elder, anonymous Roman soldiers and travellers and many others. Mental and real maps intertwine with Roman spatial awareness and geographical worldview and result in a coherent array of intellectual discussions.
