"Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture is the first book in a new series - Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Prudence J. Jones examines rivers as a literary phenomenon, particularly in the poetry of Vergil. She shows that looking at the use of rivers is essen…
Literary Territories introudces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage to Roman mapmaking and the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works, Literary Territories …
'Literary Territories' argues that the literature of Late Antiquity shared a defining aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical 'inhabited world', the oikoumene, as a literary metaphor for the collection and organization of knowledge.
Literary Territories introudces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage to Roman mapmaking and the systematization of Ptolemy's scientific works, Literary Territories …
"In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and Ammianus Mar…
"In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and Ammianus Mar…
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- A Note on the Maps -- Introducing the Borderland -- Tradition and Narrative -- Knowing -- Naming -- Narrating -- Moving -- Movement and Power -- Carrying -- Ruling -- Epilogue: Connecting -- Back Matter …
"In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and Ammianus Mar…