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Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East
Roy, Jim; Roy, Andre G.. Ed(S): Adams, Colin
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paperback. This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. Editor(s): Adams, Colin. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 567.
This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient geographical knowledge, as well as ancient travel writing (an increasingly popular genre today), its popularity and purpose. All of the papers presented ... Read more
This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient geographical knowledge, as well as ancient travel writing (an increasingly popular genre today), its popularity and purpose. All of the papers presented ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785705502
SKU
V9781785705502
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