World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays
Richard J. A. Talbert
World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian Richard Talbert presents here a cohesive selection of nineteen essays, published over the course of thirty years, all but one previously appearing in widely scattered publications. Now reinforced by an Introduction and textually and visually updated, these essays document the progress of pioneering efforts to glimpse the worldviews of Romans up and down the social scale—even Julius Caesar and Claudius—and to reassess the communicative role of Roman mapping along with its strengths and limitations. Talbert interprets the Antonine Itinerary and Artemidorus and Peutinger maps afresh, visualizing the latter with a wider perspective than in previous scholarship and probing the challenges of its design, production and copying. He also casts doubt, however, on the idea that Romans conceptualized...
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Año:
2022
Editorial:
Oxford University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
328
ISBN 10:
0197606342
ISBN 13:
9780197606346
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EPUB, 41.13 MB
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english, 2022