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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Evaluating the unwritten and the unread -- Scope of the question and goals -- The sources -- Methodological outline -- Literacy, illiteracy and orality -- The crowds and their culture -- Daily and practical geography -- Greek and Roman geography -- realities and availability -- Written geographies -- not for the masses -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Speeches -- The Attic Orators -- Antiphon (480-411 bce) |
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Lysias (445-380 bce) -- Andocides (440-390 bce) -- Isocrates (436-338 bce) -- Isaeus (early 4th century bce) -- Lycurgus (390-324 bce) -- Hyperides (390-322 bce) -- Aeschines (389-314 bce) -- Demosthenes (384-322 bce) -- Dinarchus (361-291 bce) -- Speeches in Thucydides -- Geography in Attic Speeches -- Roman speeches -- Cicero -- Comparison and conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Drama -- Athenian tragedy -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Geography in Athenian tragedies -- The comedies of Aristophanes -- Fragments of Old Comedy -- Menander's geography -- Victory odes -- Drama in Rome |
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Plautus (c. 254-184 bce) -- Terence -- The tragedies of Seneca -- Comparison and conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Proverbs and idioms -- Geographic layout and spatial awareness -- Local environment -- Local products and resources -- Local myth and history -- Ethnic idioms -- The world within the word -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Spectacles and public shows -- Athenian public events -- Roman ceremonial triumphs -- Showing Roman conquests -- Circenses: beast shows, gladiators and staged battles -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Visualizing geography -- Roads to visual geography |
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Attic vase paintings and reliefs -- Greek coins -- Visual geography in Athens -- Roman triumphal monuments -- Ethnic portraits -- Roman coinage -- Nilotic scenes in Rome -- The shape of Rome -- The visual aspect of epigraphic lists -- Conclusion -- The visual impact -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The scope of an illiterate geography -- Notes -- Appendix A: Lists of place-names in speeches -- Appendix B: Lists of place-names in dramatic plays -- Appendix C: Selection of Greek geographic and ethnographic proverbs and idioms -- Appendix D: Selection of Latin geographic and ethnographic proverbs and idioms |
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Appendix E: List of place-names in Olympic victor lists -- Appendix F: List of place-names in the Fasti Triumphales 264/3-19 bce -- Bibliography -- Index |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
Subject |
Classical geography.
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Illiterate persons -- Greece -- Athens
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Geography -- Study and teaching -- Greece -- Athens
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Education, Greek -- Social aspects
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Education -- Social aspects -- Rome
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Geography, Ancient.
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Geography, Ancient
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Classical geography
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Education -- Social aspects
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Geography -- Study and teaching
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Illiterate persons
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Greece -- Athens
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Rome (Empire)
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781000225020 |
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100022502X |
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9781000225044 |
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1000225046 |
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