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Title Ancient perspectives : maps and their place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome / edited by Richard J.A. Talbert
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 264 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.
Contents 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
Summary 'Ancient Perspectives' encompasses a vast arc of space and time - Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BLE to the fifth century CE - to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index
Subject Cartography -- Iraq -- History
Cartography -- Egypt -- History
Cartography -- Greece -- History
Cartography -- Rome -- History
Geography, Ancient.
Surveying -- History
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Cartography.
Cartography
Geography, Ancient
Surveying
Klassieke oudheid.
Kaarten (geografie)
Egypt
Greece
Iraq
Rome (Empire)
Middellandse-Zeegebied.
Mesopotamiƫ
Genre/Form History
Redes (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947-
ISBN 9780226789408
0226789403