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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
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. Cover -- New Worlds from Old Texts -- Copyright --...
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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. Cover -- New Worlds from Old Texts -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Creating New Worlds out of Old Texts -- Part I. Texts, Maps, Ideas: Ancient Greek Representations of Space -- 1. Greek Hymnic Spaces -- 2. The Waters at the End of the World: Herodotus and Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography -- 3. Map, Catalogue, Drama, Narrative: Representations of the Aegean Space -- 4. An Uneasy Smile: Herodotus on Maps and the Question of How to View the World -- 5. Mapping Spatial and Temporal Distance in Herodotus and Thucydides -- 6. From Herodotus to a 'Hellenistic' World? The Eastern Geographies of Aristotle and Theophrastus -- Part II. The Hestia Project: Towards a Narrative Geography of Herodotus' Histories -- 7. Between East and West: Movements and Transformations in Herodotean Topology -- 8. Telling Stories with Maps: Digital Experiments with Herodotean Geography -- 9. Space-travelling in Herodotus Book 5 -- Part III. Technologies, Methodologies, Theories: Contemporary Approaches to Mapping Space -- 10. Pots in Space: An Exploratory and Geographical Network Analysis of Roman Pottery Distribution -- 11. Tracing Networks: Technological Knowledge, Cultural Contact, and Knowledge Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond -- 12. Verbal Expressions of Geographical Information -- 13. A View from the Boundary -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Themes and Topics -- Index of Passage Discussed.
