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Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)
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Hardcover. Studies the effect of Rome's geographic worldview on its politics Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures. Num Pages: 266 pages, 56 illustrations, photographs. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 700.
Brilliant in conception and flowing in style, Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire documents Roman expansion in what came to be the beginnings of the early imperial period. In an inimitable way, the author of this groundbreaking work explores how Romans came to map the world they knew and conquered. Claude Nicolet studies both the agrimensores, who in the state’s interest took care to observe and record territories for Britain to the farther reaches of Asia Minor, and M. Vipsanius Agrippa, the sometime son-in-law of the Emperor Augustus.
In this absorbing study Nicolet sets forth the integral relations between ... Read more
Brilliant in conception and flowing in style, Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire documents Roman expansion in what came to be the beginnings of the early imperial period. In an inimitable way, the author of this groundbreaking work explores how Romans came to map the world they knew and conquered. Claude Nicolet studies both the agrimensores, who in the state’s interest took care to observe and record territories for Britain to the farther reaches of Asia Minor, and M. Vipsanius Agrippa, the sometime son-in-law of the Emperor Augustus.
In this absorbing study Nicolet sets forth the integral relations between ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472100965
SKU
V9780472100965
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About Unknown
Claude Nicolet was Professor at the Sorbonne, Directeur d’Études of École Pratique des Hautes Études (IVe Section), and of the Centre Gustav Glotz in Paris. He was also a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.
Reviews for Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)
. . . thoughtful and thought-provoking, acute in its reasoning, often original, and admirably erudite. . . . [Nicolet] assembles a wealth of material, proposes new and often ingenious connections, and substantially broadens the dimensions of the Augustan age. The work will have a place in all future discussions of that era." —Erich S. Gruen, Classical Philology "It is ... Read more