Ancient perspectives : maps and their place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome / edited by Richard J.A. Talbert.
'Ancient Perspectives' encompasses a vast arc of space and time - Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BLE to the fifth century CE - to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The expression of terrestrial and celestial order in ancient Mesopotamia by / Francesca Rochberg
- From topography to cosmos: ancient Egypt's multiple maps / by David O'Connor
- Mapping the world: Greek initiatives from Homer to Eratosthenes / by Georgia L. Irby
- Ptolemy's geography: mapmaking and the scientific enterprise / by Alexander Jones
- Greek and Roman surveying and surveying instruments / by Michael Lewis
- Urbs Roma to orbis romanus: Roman mapping on the grand scale / by Richard J.A. Talbert
- Putting the world in order: mapping in Roman texts / by Benet Salway.