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New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place
. Ed(S): Barker, Elton; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Pelling, Christopher; Isaksen, Leif
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Description for New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place
hardcover. Written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, New Worlds from Old Texts explores ancient Greek perceptions of space, and how they may have differed from the modern cartographic view. Editor(s): Barker, Elton; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Pelling, Christopher; Isaksen, Leif. Num Pages: 416 pages, 48 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HBTP; JFCD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 277 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography. Yet, so far as we can tell, maps were rare in the Greco-Roman world and, when mentioned in sources, are mistrusted and criticized. Today, technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of methods for representing and interacting with space. In contrast to traditional 'topographic' perspectives, the territorial extent of economic and political realms is increasingly conceived though a 'topological' lens, in which the nature and frequency of links among different sites matter more than the physical distances between them. New Worlds from Old Texts focuses on ... Read more
Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography. Yet, so far as we can tell, maps were rare in the Greco-Roman world and, when mentioned in sources, are mistrusted and criticized. Today, technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of methods for representing and interacting with space. In contrast to traditional 'topographic' perspectives, the territorial extent of economic and political realms is increasingly conceived though a 'topological' lens, in which the nature and frequency of links among different sites matter more than the physical distances between them. New Worlds from Old Texts focuses on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199664139
SKU
V9780199664139
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About . Ed(S): Barker, Elton; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Pelling, Christopher; Isaksen, Leif
Elton Barker is a Reader in Classical Studies at the Open University. Stefan Bouzarovski is a Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Urban Energy and Resilience at the University of Manchester. Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. Dr Leif Isaksen is a Senior Lecturer in History and Digital ... Read more
Reviews for New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place
A shared vision about the need to contemplate space in new ways, Herodotus' Histories as a common arena for deliberation, and the potential of digital humanities to open new lines of research embody the three thematic axes of the book. Also, due to the frequent cross-references across chapters, the volume bears the mark of a genuinely interdisciplinary debate. All of ... Read more