Ancient perspectives : maps and their place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome

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Ancient perspectives : maps and their place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece & Rome

edited by Richard J.A. Talbert

(The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography)

University of Chicago Press, 2012

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The expression of terrestrial and celestial order in ancient Mesopotamia / Francesca Rochberg
  • From topography to cosmos : ancient Egypt's multiple maps / David O'Connor
  • Mapping the world : Greek initiatives from Homer to Eratosthenes / Georgia L. Irby
  • Ptolemy's geography : mapmaking and the scientific enterprise / Alexander Jones
  • Greek and Roman surveying and surveying instruments / Michael Lewis
  • Urbs Roma to orbis romanus : Roman mapping on the grand scale / Richard J.A. Talbert
  • Putting the world in order : mapping in Roman texts / Benet Salway

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