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New worlds from old texts : revisiting ancient space and place / Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Christopher Pelling, and Leif Isaksen

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Additional Creators
Barker, Elton T. E. (Elton Thomas Edward), 1971-, Buzar, Stefan, 1977-, Pelling, C. B. R., and Isaksen, Leif
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Texts, Maps, Ideas: Ancient Greek Representations of Space -- 1.Greek Hymnic Spaces / Oliver Thomas -- 2.The Waters at the End of the World: Herodotus and Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography / Donald Murray -- 3.Map, Catalogue, Drama, Narrative: Representations of the Aegean Space / Paola Ceccarelli -- 4.An Uneasy Smile: Herodotus on Maps and the Question of How to View the World / Mathieu de Bakker -- 5.Mapping Spatial and Temporal Distance in Herodotus and Thucydides / Tim Rood -- 6.From Herodotus to a `Hellenistic' World? The Eastern Geographies of Aristotle and Theophrastus / Kathryn Stevens -- pt. II The Hestia Project: Towards a Narrative Geography of Herodotus' Histories -- 7.Between East and West: Movements and Transformations in Herodotean Topology / Elton Barker -- 8.Telling Stories with Maps: Digital Experiments with Herodotean Geography / Jessica Ogden -- 9.Space-travelling in Herodotus Book 5 / Christopher Felling -- pt. III Technologies, Methodologies, Theories: Contemporary Approaches to Mapping Space -- 10.Pots in Space: An Exploratory and Geographical Network Analysis of Roman Pottery Distribution / Jeroen Poblome -- 11.Tracing Networks: Technological Knowledge, Cultural Contact, and Knowledge Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond / Leo Webley -- 12.Verbal Expressions of Geographical Information / Øyvind Eide -- 13.A View from the Boundary / Christopher Felling.
Summary
Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, 'New Worlds from Old Texts' explores ancient Greek perceptions of space and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view.
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ISBN
9780191809743 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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