While it is divided into three main sections, this book makes clear that the relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically), and the reception of and reaction to books are complex.
Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of St…
"Strabo was born in Amasia of Pontus in 64 BCE. His Geography shows him as a Greek scholar who absorbed, probably as a product of years spent there as an adult, the political and cultural atmosphere of Augustan Rome, His contemporary Roman political consciousness makes Strabo ar…
"Strabo was born in Amasia of Pontus in 64 BCE. His Geography shows him as a Greek scholar who absorbed, probably as a product of years spent there as an adult, the political and cultural atmosphere of Augustan Rome, His contemporary Roman political consciousness makes Strabo ar…
"Strabo was born in Amasia of Pontus in 64 BCE. His Geography shows him as a Greek scholar who absorbed, probably as a product of years spent there as an adult, the political and cultural atmosphere of Augustan Rome, His contemporary Roman political consciousness makes Strabo ar…
Offers a new interpretation of the man and his life and emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and of geography itself within these intellectual circles.
"In this innovative work of history, Edward Wilson-Lee tells the extraordinary story of Hernando Colón, a singular visionary of the printing press-age who also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando traveled with C…
