Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome

ISBN-13: 9780367439705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 266 str.

Daniela Dueck

Opis

This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission.

Spis treści

Chapter One – Evaluating the unwritten and the unread; Chapter Two – Speeches; Chapter Three – Drama; Chapter Four – Proverbs and idioms; Chapter Five – Spectacles and public shows; Chapter Six – Visualizing geography; Chapter Seven – The scope of an illiterate geography; Appendices; Appendix A – Lists of place-names in speeches; Appendix B – Lists of place-names in dramatic plays; Appendix C – Selection of Greek geographic and ethnographic proverbs and idioms; Appendix D – Selection of Latin geographic and ethnographic proverbs and idioms; Appendix E – List of place-names in Olympic victor lists; Appendix F – List of place-names in the Fasti Triumphales 264/3-19 BCE