Travel, geography and culture in ancient Greece, Egypt and the near east
- ISBN: 9781842172490
- Editorial: Osbow Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2007
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Colección: Leicester Nottingham studies in ancient society
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 208
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Cartoné
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This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of importance is the study of ancient geographical knowledge, as well as ancient travel writing (an increasingly popular genre today), its popularity and purpose. All of the papers presented here show that ancient travel was considerably more widespread than is often assumed.
Eds. Colin Adams, Jim Roy
