Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Lectures on the Geography of Greece by the Rev. Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Lectures on the Geography of Greece
Author: Henry Fanshawe Tozer
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Geography and the Classical World
Author: William A. Koelsch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350197378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350197378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
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.
Lectures on the Geography of Ancient Greece
Author: Gessner Harrison
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Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Publisher:
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Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
A Handbook for Travellers in Greece ... Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged, Etc. [The Reviser's Preface Signed: R. G. W.]
Author: John Murray (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Ancient Perspectives
Author: Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226789373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226789373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy’s ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor’s rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.
A History of Greece
Author: Philip Van Ness Myers
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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A manual of ancient history
Author: George Rawlinson
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Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Handbook for Travellers in Greece
Author: John Murray (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
A History of Greece for Colleges and High Schools
Author: Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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