World and hour in Roman minds exploratory essays
Introduction -- (Part I: World and Empire in the Mind's Eye) -- Oswald Dilke's Greek and Roman maps (1985) -- China and Rome: the awareness of space -- Grasp of geography in Caesar's war narratives -- Trevor Murphy's Pliny the Elder's natural history: the empire in the Encyc...
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Oxford University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- (Part I: World and Empire in the Mind's Eye) -- Oswald Dilke's Greek and Roman maps (1985) -- China and Rome: the awareness of space -- Grasp of geography in Caesar's war narratives -- Trevor Murphy's Pliny the Elder's natural history: the empire in the Encyclopedia (2004) -- An English translation of Pliny's geographical books for the twenty-first century -- Boundaries Within the Roman Empire -- Rome's provinces as framework for worldview -- Worldview reflected in Roman military diplomas -- Author, audience and the Roman Empire in the Antonine itinerary -- John Matthews' The Journey of Theophanes: travel, business, and daily life in the Roman East (2006) -- (Part II: Maps for Whom and Why) -- The unfinished state of the Artemidorus Map: what is missing, and why? -- Claudius' use of a map in the Roman Senate -- Cartography and taste in Peutinger's Roman map -- Peutinger's map: the physical landscape framework -- Copyists' engagement with the Peutinger map -- (Part III: From Space to Time) -- Roads not featured: a Roman failure to communicate? -- Roads in the Roman world: strategy for the way forward -- Communicating through maps: the Roman case -- Roman concern to know the hour in broader historical context -- Bibliography -- Ancient texts and maps -- Modern scholarship -- Index "Talbert presents a cohesive selection of nineteen 'essays' (articles and reviews) written over the past thirty years, all but one previously appearing in widely scattered publications. Now reinforced by an Introduction, updating and additional illustrations, they primarily document the progress of his pioneering efforts to penetrate the worldviews of Romans up and down the social scale, and to reassess the strengths and limitations of Roman mapping along with its communicative role. The Antonine Itinerary and Artemidorus and Peutinger maps are interpreted afresh, the latter in particular visualized with wider perspective than hitherto, and the challenges of its design, production and copying probed. Talbert points to boundaries, especially those between provinces, as overlooked formative elements in the shaping of Romans' worldview. He finds reason to doubt, however, whether they conceptualized their empire's long-distance roads as an interconnected system - unlike certain comparable premodern states across the Americas and Asia, although these regulated travel very differently from Rome. An instructive comparison is made between Chinese and Roman cartography. For the first time, Talbert unlocks ethnographic and geographic data recorded on Roman military diplomas and on one type of portable sundial. The most recent essays share findings that emerge with a shift of focus from space to time, specifically Romans' daily timekeeping by hours, another neglected dimension of their social mentality. Throughout, the essays are unified by the methods applied: the value of broader, often comparative, approaches is demonstrated, so too the creative potential of untapped testimony and of new digital technology"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 308 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780197606346 978-0-19-760634-6 |