Title Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (279 p.) Series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies Routledge monographs in classical studies. 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) 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 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 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 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. Illiterate persons -- Greece -- Athens Geography -- Study and teaching -- Greece -- Athens Education, Greek -- Social aspects Education -- Social aspects -- Rome Geography, Ancient. Geography, Ancient Classical geography Education -- Social aspects Geography -- Study and teaching Illiterate persons Greece -- Athens Rome (Empire) Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000225020 100022502X 9781000225044 1000225046

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