New worlds from old texts [electronic resource] : revisiting ancient space and place / Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Christopher Pelling, and Leif Isaksen.
Barker, Elton T. E. (Elton Thomas Edward), 1971- editor.; Bouzarovski, Stefan, editor.; Pelling, C. B. R., editor.; Isaksen, Leif, editor.
2016
PA3014.S73 N49 2016eb
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Title New worlds from old texts [electronic resource] : revisiting ancient space and place / Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Christopher Pelling, and Leif Isaksen.
ISBN 9780191809743 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199664139
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199664139 doi
Call Number PA3014.S73 N49 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 880.9001
Summary Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, 'New Worlds from Old Texts' explores ancient Greek perceptions of space and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view.
Note Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, 'New Worlds from Old Texts' explores ancient Greek perceptions of space and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Barker, Elton T. E. (Elton Thomas Edward), 1971- editor.
Bouzarovski, Stefan, editor.
Pelling, C. B. R., editor.
Isaksen, Leif, editor.
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Introduction / Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, and Leif Isaksen. Part 1: Texts, Maps, Ideas: Ancient Greek Representations of Space. 1. Greek Hymnic Spaces / Oliver Thomas - 2. The Waters at the Ends of the World : Herodotus and Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography / Donald Murray
3. Map, Catalogue, Drama, Narrative: Representations of the Aegean Space / Paola Ceccarelli
4. An Uneasy Smile: Herodotus on Saps and the Question of How to View the World / Mathieu de Bakker
5. Mapping Spatial and Temporal Distance in Herodotus and Thucydides / Tim Rood
6. From Herodotus to a 'Hellenistic' World? The Eastern Geographies of Aristotle and Theophrastus / Kathryn Stevens.

Part 2: The Hestia Project: Towards a Narrative Geography of Herodotus' Histories. 7. Between East and West : Movements and Transformations in Herodotean Topology / Stefan Bouzarovski and Elton Barker
8. Telling Stories with Maps: Exploring Herodotean Geography through Digital Tools / Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen, and Jessica Ogden
9. Space-travelling in Herodotus Book 5 / Elton Barker and Christopher Pelling.

Part 3: Technologies, Methodologies, Theories : Contemporary Approaches to Mapping Space. 10. Pots in Space : An Exploratory and Geographical Network Analysis of Roman Pottery Distribution / Tom Brughmans and Jeroen Poblome
11. Tracing Networks : Technological Knowledge, Cultural Contact and Knowledge Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond / Lin Foxhall and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
12. Verbal Expressions of Geographical Information / Oyvind Eide - Epilogue : A View from the Boundary / Christopher Pelling.

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