| Description |
1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- World and Hour in Roman Minds -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: World and Empire in 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Cartography -- Rome -- History
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Roads, Roman.
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Time perception -- Rome
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Cartography
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Roads, Roman
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Time perception
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197606360 |
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0197606369 |
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