04736nam 2200757 450 991078907220332120200520144314.00-226-78940-310.7208/9780226789408(CKB)3390000000052640(EBL)1634051(SSID)ssj0001111319(PQKBManifestationID)11636860(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001111319(PQKBWorkID)11130860(PQKB)11620896(StDuBDS)EDZ0000173043(MiAaPQ)EBC1634051(DE-B1597)523707(OCoLC)1125186701(DE-B1597)9780226789408(Au-PeEL)EBL1634051(CaPaEBR)ebr10839083(CaONFJC)MIL585328(OCoLC)870950678(PPN)272851884(EXLCZ)99339000000005264020120112h20122012 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAncient perspectives maps and their place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome /edited by Richard J. A. TalbertChicago ;London :University of Chicago Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (284 p.)The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartographyDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-78937-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.The expression of terrestrial and celestial order in ancient Mesopotamia by / Francesca Rochberg -- From topography to cosmos: ancient Egypt's multiple maps / by David O'Connor -- Mapping the world: Greek initiatives from Homer to Eratosthenes / by Georgia L. Irby -- Ptolemy's geography: mapmaking and the scientific enterprise / by Alexander Jones -- Greek and Roman surveying and surveying instruments / by Michael Lewis -- Urbs Roma to orbis romanus: Roman mapping on the grand scale / by Richard J.A. Talbert -- Putting the world in order: mapping in Roman texts / by Benet Salway.Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time-Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE-to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people. Ancient Perspectives presents an ambitious, fresh overview of cartography and its uses. The seven chapters range from broad-based analyses of mapping in Mesopotamia and Egypt to a close focus on Ptolemy's ideas for drawing a world map based on the theories of his Greek predecessors at Alexandria. The remarkable accuracy of Mesopotamian city-plans is revealed, as is the creation of maps by Romans to support the proud claim that their emperor's rule was global in its reach. By probing the instruments and techniques of both Greek and Roman surveyors, one chapter seeks to uncover how their extraordinary planning of roads, aqueducts, and tunnels was achieved. Even though none of these civilizations devised the means to measure time or distance with precision, they still conceptualized their surroundings, natural and man-made, near and far, and felt the urge to record them by inventive means that this absorbing volume reinterprets and compares.Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.CartographyIraqHistoryCartographyEgyptHistoryCartographyGreeceHistoryCartographyRomeHistoryGeography, AncientSurveyingHistoryhistory, historical, maps, mapmaking, cartography, cartographer, mesopotamia, egypt, greece, rome, italy, africa, fertile crescent, time period, era, europe, millennium, bce, civilization, culture, cultural, antiquity, analysis, ptolemy, world, global, alexandria, mesopotamian, city planning, roman, aqueducts, roads, surveying, essay collection, anthology.CartographyHistory.CartographyHistory.CartographyHistory.CartographyHistory.Geography, Ancient.SurveyingHistory.526.09/01Talbert Richard J. A.1947-,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789072203321Ancient perspectives1322975UNINA01483nam0 22003011i 450 UON0016364320231205103021.79735-15-07951-320021008d2001 |0itac50 bagerDE|||| |||||Bauinschriften Romischer KaiserUntersuchungen zu Inschriftenpraxis und Bautatigkeit in Stadten des westlichen Imperium Romanum in der Zeit des PrinzipatsMarietta HorsterStuttgartSteiner2001 - x496 p. ; 25 cm001UON000874142001 HistoriaZeitschrift fuer alte GeschichteRevue d'histoire ancienneJournal of ancient historyRivista di storia antica. Einzelschriftenhrsg. von Mortimer Chamberset al.]157IMPERATORI ROMANIMecenatismoFonti epigraficheUONC033931FIISCRIZIONI LATINEImpero romanoUONC033932FIMONUMENTIImpero romanoUONC033933FIDEWiesbadenUONL003153937.06Storia dell'impero romano21HORSTERMariettaUONV097955260530SteinerUONV245907650ITSOL20250704RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00163643SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI D 174 SI MC 26497 5 Bauinschriften römischer Kaiser706366UNIOR