Geography and Ethnography / Ancient World: Comparative Histories (PDF)
Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies
(Sprache: Englisch)
This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who
have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews
of a wide range of pre-modern societies.
* Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through
to the Age of...
have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews
of a wide range of pre-modern societies.
* Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through
to the Age of...
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This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who
have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews
of a wide range of pre-modern societies.
* Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through
to the Age of Discovery
* Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around
the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the
Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India
* Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials
have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews
of a wide range of pre-modern societies.
* Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through
to the Age of Discovery
* Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around
the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the
Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India
* Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials
Autoren-Porträt
Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor, andProfessor of Classics and History, at Brown University. His
numerous publications include The Discovery of Freedom
(2004) and Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007,
co-authored with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace). He is also the
editor of Social Struggles in Archaic Rome (Blackwell,
2005), and War and Peace in the Ancient World (Blackwell,
2007), and co-editor of A Companion to Archaic Greece
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
Richard J.A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr, Professor
of History and Classics at The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He is the editor of the Barrington Atlas of the
Greek and Roman World (2000), and co-editor of Space in the
Roman World: Its Perception and Presentation (2004), as well as
of Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh
Perspectives, New Methods (2008). His major study
Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered will
appear in 2010.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2009, 1. Auflage, 376 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Kurt A. Raaflaub, Richard J. A. Talbert
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1444315668
- ISBN-13: 9781444315660
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2009
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