Geography And The Classical World
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| Author | : Terri Johnson |
| Publisher | : Master Books |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2021-10-13 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781683442752 |
Ready to explore the world? In A Child's Geography Volume 3, you will take your upper elementary student on an unforgettable journey into the culture, cuisine, history, and evidence of Christianity in the classical world! This revised and updated study of Greece, Italy, Croatia, Albania includes all-in-one worksheets, full-color images, and interactive assignments.
| Author | : William A. Koelsch |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2020-12-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1350197378 |
In the late eighteenth century, a new subject emerged that was one of the earliest forms of historical geography. It was called ancient geography or classical geography. Geographers, historians and classicists all contributed to its rise, as it flourished in both Britain and America. Yet in the 1920s, as geography took a different turn, the subject began to decline. As a result the story has been omitted from more recent histories of geography and indeed from the classical tradition. William Koelsch's pioneering volume in the Tauris Historical Geography Series is the first full-length work to explore the emergence of the subject, its successes and failures, and to explore its role in the geographical tradition. The author gives equal prominence to the story as it unfolded in both Britain and America. The result is a work of outstanding scholarship that reveals a rich and important part of the geographical and classical tradition that has until now been overlooked -- Editor.
| Author | : Daniela Dueck |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2012-04-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521197880 |
An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.
| Author | : Duane W. Roller |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2015-08-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857739239 |
The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek world, and a more accurate understanding of ancient geography and geographers has emerged. The topic is therefore overdue a fresh and sustained treatment. In offering precisely that, Duane Roller explores important topics like knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and Archaic periods; Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West; the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe; the invention of geography as a discipline by Eratosthenes; Polybios the explorer; Strabo's famous Geographica; the travels of Alexander the Great; Roman geography; Ptolemy and late antiquity; and the cultural reawakening of antique geographical knowledge in the Renaissance, including Columbus' use of ancient sources.
| Author | : Kurt A. Raaflaub |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2009-12-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781444315660 |
This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, whohave analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviewsof a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity throughto the Age of Discovery Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies aroundthe globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from theGreeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials
| Author | : Serena Bianchetti |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 2015-11-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004284710 |
Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography edited by S. Bianchetti, M. R. Cataudella, H. J. Gehrke is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on a selection of topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought. In this work, scholars, all of whom are specialists in a variety of fields, examine the interaction of humans with their environment and try to reconstruct the representations of the inhabited world in the works of ancient historians, scientists, and cartographers. Topics include: Eudoxus, Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Agatharchides, Agrippa, Strabo, Pliny and Solinus, Ptolemy, and the Peutinger Map. Other issues are also discussed such as onomastics, the boundaries of states, Pythagorism, sacred itineraries, measurement systems, and the Holy Land.
| Author | : Katherine Clarke |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2000-01-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0191553735 |
The late Hellenistic period witnessed the rise of an imperial power whose dominion extended across almost the whole known world. The Roman empire radically affected geographical conceptions, evoking new ways of describing the earth and of constructing its history. In this book the writings of three literary figures of the age are explored: the History of Polybius, two fragmentary works of Posidonius, and the universal Geography of Strabo. Analysis in terms of the philosophical concepts of time and space reveals the generic fluidity of such 'geographical' and 'historical' works. Furthermore, these broadly conceived accounts are shown to be appropriate literary media for the response to Roman power. They use, but transform, pre-existing Greek traditions in order to describe the new world of Rome, making them fitting products of a transitional age. This book provides a new approach to Roman imperialism by considering its impact on historiography and geographical thought.
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| Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2013-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1624660894 |
By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of otherness, as well as Greek and Roman views of non-Greeks and non-Romans. A general introduction, thorough annotation, maps, a select bibliography, and an index are also included.
| Author | : Daniela Dueck |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2020-11-26 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1000225046 |
This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of a very small number of learned people. It deals with non-literary knowledge of geography, geography not derived from texts, as it was available to people, educated or not, who did not read geographic works. This main issue is composed of two central questions: how, if at all, was geographic data available outside of textual transmission and in contexts in which there was no need to write or read? And what could the public know of geography? In general, three groups of sources are relevant to this quest: oral communications preserved in writing; public non-textual performances; and visual artefacts and monuments. All of these are examined as potential sources for the aural and visual geographic knowledge of Greco-Roman publics. This volume will be of interest to anyone working on geography in the ancient world and to those studying non-elite culture.
| Author | : Lee L. Brice |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2015-01-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004283722 |
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 and useful examinations is focused around the core theme of Talbert’s work – how ancient individuals and groups organized their world, through their institutions and geography. The first half of the book considers institutional history in chapters on such diverse topics as the Roman Senate, Roman provincial politics and administration, healing springs, gladiators, and soldiers. Chapters on the geography of Thucydides and Alexander III, imperial geography, tracking letters and using sundials round out the second half of the book.
