New Worlds from Old Texts by Christopher Pelling (.ePUB)
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New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place by Christopher Pelling, Stefan Bouzarovski, Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen
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Overview: 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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