New Worlds from Old Texts

Revisiting Ancient Space and Place
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-966413-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

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 the ancient Greek experience of space, conceived of in terms of both its literature and material culture remains, and uses this to reflect on modern thinking. Comprising twelve chapters written by a highly interdisciplinary range of contributors, this edited collection explores the rich array of representational devices employed by ancient authors, whose narrative depictions of spatial relations defy the logic of images and surfaces that dominates contemporary cartographic thought. The volume focuses on Herodotus' Histories-a text that is increasingly cited by Classicists as an example of how ancient perceptions of space may have been rather different to the modern cartographic view-but also considers perceptions of space through the lens of other authors, genres, cultural contexts, and disciplines. In doing so, it reveals how a study of the ancient world can be reinvigorated by, and in turn help to shape, modern technological innovation and methods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barker, Elton

Bouzarovski, Stefan

Pelling, Christopher

Isaksen, Leif

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part 1: Texts, Maps, Ideas: Ancient Greek Representations of Space

- 1: Oliver Thomas: Greek Hymnic Spaces

- 2: Donald Murray†: The Waters at the Ends of the World: Herodotus and Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography

- 3: Paola Ceccarelli: Map, Catalogue, Drama, Narrative: Representations of the Aegean Space

- 4: Mathieu de Bakker: An Uneasy Smile: Herodotus on Saps and the Question of How to View the World

- 5: Tim Rood: Mapping Spatial and Temporal Distance in Herodotus and Thucydides

- 6: Kathryn Stevens: From Herodotus to a 'Hellenistic' World? The Eastern Geographies of Aristotle and Theophrastus

- Part 2: The Hestia Project: Towards a Narrative Geography of Herodotus' Histories

- 7: Stefan Bouzarovski and Elton Barker: Between East and West: Movements and Transformations in Herodotean Topology

- 8: Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen, and Jessica Ogden: Telling Stories with Maps: Exploring Herodotean Geography through Digital Tools

- 9: Elton Barker and Christopher Pelling: Space-travelling in Herodotus Book 5

- Part 3: Technologies, Methodologies, Theories: Contemporary Approaches to Mapping Space

- 10: Tom Brughmans and Jeroen Poblome: Pots in Space: An Exploratory and Geographical Network Analysis of Roman Pottery Distribution

- 11: Lin Foxhall and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury: Tracing Networks: Technological Knowledge, Cultural Contact and Knowledge Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond

- 12: Øyvind Eide: Verbal Expressions of Geographical Information

- Epilogue: A View from the Boundary

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 Humanities at Lancaster University.