"In Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography, colleagues and students honor Richard J.A. Talbert for his numerous contributions and influence on the fields of ancient history, political and social science, as well as cartography and geography. This collection of original an…
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time--Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE--to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society…
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time--Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE--to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society…
Das um 530 n. Chr. verfasste Lexikon, gleichsam ein byzantinischer Brockhaus der antiken Welt, verzeichnet ca. 3.600 Orts-, Berg-, Gewässer- und Völkernamen, deren Ursprung und Ableitungen es erklärt. Die Gründungslegenden und die Fülle kulturhistorischer Nachrichten machen es z…