Travel And Geography In The Roman Empire

Author : Colin Adams,Ray Laurence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134581801

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Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire by Colin Adams,Ray Laurence Pdf

The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - both military and civilians - travelled, or examined their geographical understanding in an era which offered a greatly increased potential for moving around, and a much bigger choice of destinations. This volume provides new perspectives on these issues, and some controversial arguments; for instance, that travel was not limited to the elite, and that maps as we know them did not exist in the empire. The military importance of transport and communication networks is also a focus, as is the imperial post system (cursus publicus), and the logistics and significance of transport in both conquest and administration. With more than forty photographs, maps and illustrations, this collection provides a new understanding of the role and importance of travel, and of the nature of geographical knowledge, in the Roman world,

Author : Claude Nicolet
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Classical geography
ISBN : 0472100963

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Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire by Claude Nicolet Pdf

Studies the effect of Rome's geographic worldview on its politics

Author : Micah Young Myers,Erika Zimmermann Damer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000427455

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Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry by Micah Young Myers,Erika Zimmermann Damer Pdf

This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse, exploring how poetry in the Roman world is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to travel within the geography of Rome’s far-reaching empire. The volume surveys Roman poetics of travel and geography in sources ranging from Plautus to Augustan poetry, from the Flavians to Ausonius. The chapters offer a range of approaches to: the complex relationship between Latin poetry, Roman identity, imperialism, and travel and geospatial narratives; and the diachronic and generic evolutions of poetic descriptions of space and mobility. In addition, two chapters, including the concluding one, contextualize and respond to the volume’s discussion of poetry by looking at ways in which Romans not only write and read poems about travel and geography, but also make writing and reading part of the experience of traveling, as demonstrated in their epigraphic practices. The collection as a whole offers important insights into Roman poetics and into ancient notions of movement and geographical space. Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry will be of interest to specialists in Latin poetry, ancient travel, and Latin epigraphy as well as to those studying travel writing, geography, imperialism, and mobility in other periods. The chapters are written to be accessible to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.

Author : Amelie von Zumbusch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 1477708928

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Ancient Roman Geography by Amelie von Zumbusch Pdf

Author : Linda Ellis,Frank L. Kidner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351877633

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Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity by Linda Ellis,Frank L. Kidner Pdf

Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity brings together a set of papers that consider anew issues of travel, communication and landscape in Late Antiquity. This period witnessed an increase in long-distance travel and the construction of large new inter-provincial communications networks. The Christian Church's expansion is but one example of both phenomena. The contributions here present readers with new research on the explosion in travel and large-scale communication, and the effect on this of different geographical possibilities and limitations. The papers deal with a variety of travel experiences (religious pilgrimages; travel for work and educational purposes; journeys of the soul) and writings about travel; they look at various kinds of communication (ecclesiastical communication; communication for commerce; and the communication of religious identity); and they examine both physical and psychological aspects of geography, travel and communication.

Author : Edward Herbert Bunbury
Publisher : Hansebooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337310796

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A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans by Edward Herbert Bunbury Pdf

A History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans - From the earliest ages till the fall of the Roman Empire is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : Melanie Waldron
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781406291322

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Geography Matters in Ancient Rome by Melanie Waldron Pdf

Why did Roman towns have bathhouses? Why was Rome at great risk from fires? What happened to the town of Pompeii in AD 79? Geography Matters in Ancient Rome looks at how the Roman Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Roman life through its geography. Read about how the Romans invented new farming methods such as a harvesting machine called a vallus, how some women in the Roman Empire had more freedom than in other civilizations, even running their husbands' businesses for them when they were away, and how the Empire was strengthened by the fact that the different climates, soils and terrain produced a huge range of goods and resources.

Author : Eugene Berger,Brian Parkinson,Larry Israel,Charlotte Miller,Andrew Reeves,Nadejda Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066540011

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World History by Eugene Berger,Brian Parkinson,Larry Israel,Charlotte Miller,Andrew Reeves,Nadejda Williams Pdf

Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.

Author : Fritz-Heiner Mutschler,Achim Mittag
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191550447

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Conceiving the Empire by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler,Achim Mittag Pdf

The essays in Conceiving the Empire explore the mental images, ideas, and symbolical representations of `empire' which developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome. While the central focus is on historiography, other related fields are also explored: geography and cartography, epigraphy, art and architecture, and, more generally, political thought and the history of ideas. Written by a collaborative team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, the volume focuses the attention of the emerging discipline of East-West cross-cultural studies on an essential feature of the ancient Mediterranean and Chinese worlds: the emergence of `empire' and the enduring influence of the `imperial' order.

Author : Hamish Cameron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004388635

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Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland by Hamish Cameron Pdf

In Making Mesopotamia Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland as an inter-imperial borderland in Roman geographical writings of the first four centuries CE.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307377

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Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire by Anonim Pdf

In Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire seventeen specialists in the fields of Roman social history, Roman demography and Roman economic history offer fresh perspectives on voluntary, state-organised and forced mobility during the first to early third centuries CE.

Author : Robert Odell Bork,Andrea Kann
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0754663078

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The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel by Robert Odell Bork,Andrea Kann Pdf

This sixth volume in the AVISTA series considers medieval travel from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, placing the physical practice of transportation in the larger context of medieval thought about the world and its meaning. The papers included cover vehicle design and logistical management, the practicalities of how travellers oriented themselves, and the symbolism of the landscapes and maps created in the Middle Ages.

Author : Drew W. Billings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107187856

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Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism by Drew W. Billings Pdf

Billings demonstrates that Acts was written in conformity with broader representational trends found on imperial monuments and in the epigraphic record of the early second century.

Author : Daniela Dueck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000225044

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Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome by Daniela Dueck Pdf

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 : Daniela Dueck,Kai Brodersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521197885

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Geography in Classical Antiquity by Daniela Dueck,Kai Brodersen Pdf

An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world.