Features of Common Sense Geography: Implicit Knowledge Structures in Ancient Geographical Texts

ISBN-13: 9783643905284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 374 str.

Klaus Geus;Martin Thiering

Opis

The contributions in this volume combine fundamental questions of common sense geography with case studies of ancient geographical texts. The book bridges synchronic cognitive linguistic and cognitive psychological approaches to the ancient texts with a diachronic perspective. The mental modeling of common sense geography is a fruitful theoretical approach, to gain deeper insights in universal and cultural-specific mnemonic representational systems on the one hand, and to enhance our understanding of ancient geography on the other. (Series: Ancient Culture and History / Antike Kultur und Geschichte - Vol. 16)

O autorze

Klaus Geus hat den Lehrstuhl für Historische Geographie des antiken Mittelmeerraumes an der Freien Universität Berlin inne. Neben Büchern zur Geschichte Nord- und Ostafrikas und zu den antiken Wissenschaften hat er mehrere Publikationen zu antiken und modernen Utopien verfasst.