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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.
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.
Author: Richard J. A. Talbert Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197606342 Category : Cartography Languages : en Pages : 329
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Introduction -- (Part I: World and Empire in the Mind's Eye) -- Oswald Dilke's Greek and Roman maps (1985) -- China and Rome: the awareness of space -- Grasp of geography in Caesar's war narratives -- Trevor Murphy's Pliny the Elder's natural history: the empire in the Encyclopedia (2004) -- An English translation of Pliny's geographical books for the twenty-first century -- Boundaries Within the Roman Empire -- Rome's provinces as framework for worldview -- Worldview reflected in Roman military diplomas -- Author, audience and the Roman Empire in the Antonine itinerary -- John Matthews' The Journey of Theophanes: travel, business, and daily life in the Roman East (2006) -- (Part II: Maps for Whom and Why) -- The unfinished state of the Artemidorus Map: what is missing, and why? -- Claudius' use of a map in the Roman Senate -- Cartography and taste in Peutinger's Roman map -- Peutinger's map: the physical landscape framework -- Copyists' engagement with the Peutinger map -- (Part III: From Space to Time) -- Roads not featured: a Roman failure to communicate? -- Roads in the Roman world: strategy for the way forward -- Communicating through maps: the Roman case -- Roman concern to know the hour in broader historical context -- Bibliography -- Ancient texts and maps -- Modern scholarship -- Index.
Author: Jeremy Tanner Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 180008398X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
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Materialising the Roman Empire defines an innovative research agenda for Roman archaeology, highlighting the diverse ways in which the Empire was made materially tangible in the lives of its inhabitants. The volume explores how material culture was integral to the processes of imperialism, both as the Empire grew, and as it fragmented, and in doing so provide up-to-date overviews of major topics in Roman archaeology. Each chapter offers a critical overview of a major field within the archaeology of the Roman Empire. The book’s authors explore the distinctive contribution that archaeology and the study of material culture can make to our understanding of the key institutions and fields of activity in the Roman Empire. The initial chapters address major technologies which, at first glance, appear to be mechanisms of integration across the Roman Empire: roads, writing and coinage. The focus then shifts to analysis of key social structures oriented around material forms and activities found all over the Roman world, such as trade, urbanism, slavery, craft production and frontiers. Finally, the book extends to more abstract dimensions of the Roman world: art, empire, religion and ideology, in which the significant themes remain the dynamics of power and influence. The whole builds towards a broad exploration of the nature of imperial power and the inter-connections that stimulated new community identities and created new social divisions.
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