Author: Richard J. A. Talbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197606369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian Richard Talbert presents here a cohesive selection of nineteen essays, published over the course of thirty years, all but one previously appearing in widely scattered publications. Now reinforced by an Introduction and textually and visually updated, these essays document the progress of pioneering efforts to glimpse the worldviews of Romans up and down the social scale--even Julius Caesar and Claudius--and to reassess the communicative role of Roman mapping along with its strengths and limitations. Talbert interprets the Antonine Itinerary and Artemidorus and Peutinger maps afresh, visualizing the latter with a wider perspective than in previous scholarship and probing the challenges of its design, production and copying. He also casts doubt, however, on the idea that Romans conceptualized their long-distance roads as an interconnected system, as did certain comparable premodern states across the Americas and Asia. 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 mentalité. Talbert suggests that Romans' tracking of time should be regarded as uncannily similar to that of the Japanese before Westernization. Throughout, the essays are unified by the methods applied. The value of broader, often comparative, approaches is demonstrated, as well as the creative potential of untapped testimony and digital technology--altogether an invaluable platform to stimulate further inquiry.
World and Hour in Roman Minds
The Hibbert Journal
Author: Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
A quarterly review of religion, theology, and philosophy.
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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A quarterly review of religion, theology, and philosophy.
Golden hours, ed. by W.M. Whittemore
Author: William Meynell Whittemore
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Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Author: James Evans
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691174407
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, October 19, 2016-April 23, 2017.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691174407
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, October 19, 2016-April 23, 2017.
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
Author: Richard J.A. Talbert
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691049458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
These two volumes have no maps. But all the Greek and Roman place names which are mapped in the atlas volume are here given together with references to the original research which marshals the evidence for how we know where the ancient places were.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691049458
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
These two volumes have no maps. But all the Greek and Roman place names which are mapped in the atlas volume are here given together with references to the original research which marshals the evidence for how we know where the ancient places were.
Anglo-American Encyclopedia
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Legacy of the Ancient World
Author: William George De Burgh
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The Knickerbacker
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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The Expository Times
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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The Encyclopædia Britannica
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 938
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