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Travel and geography in the Roman Empire / edited by Colin Adams and Ray Laurence.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; London : Routledge, 2001.Description: x, 202 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0415230349
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 913.704/6 21
LOC classification:
  • DG 30.T73 2001 DG 30.T73 2001
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: List offigures vii -- List of contributors ix -- Preface x 1 Introduction 1 -- COLIN ADAMS --2 The presentation of geographical knowledge for travel -- and transport in the Roman world: itineraria non tantum -- adnotata sed etiam picta 7 -- KAI BRODERSEN --3 Travel, itineraria and tabellaria 22 -- BENET SALWAY --4 The creation of geography: an interpretation of Roman -- Britain 67 -- RAY LAURENCE --5 Transport and communication in the Roman state: the -- cursus publicus 95 -- ANNE KOLB --6 Transport and travel on the Column of Trajan 106 -- JON COULSTON --7 'There and back again': getting around in Roman Egypt 138 -- COLIN ADAMS -- 8 Afterword: travel and empire 167 -- RAY LAURENCE Bibliography 177 -- Index 196
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Books Books AIU/NEGST - Tony Wilmot Memorial Library General Stacks General Circulation DG 30.T73 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R59757J3232

"Five of the chapters included in this volume were originally given as papers at the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies[,] Roman Archaeology conference at Durham in April 1999"--P. x.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.

Machine generated contents note: List offigures vii -- List of contributors ix -- Preface x 1 Introduction 1 -- COLIN ADAMS --2 The presentation of geographical knowledge for travel -- and transport in the Roman world: itineraria non tantum -- adnotata sed etiam picta 7 -- KAI BRODERSEN --3 Travel, itineraria and tabellaria 22 -- BENET SALWAY --4 The creation of geography: an interpretation of Roman -- Britain 67 -- RAY LAURENCE --5 Transport and communication in the Roman state: the -- cursus publicus 95 -- ANNE KOLB --6 Transport and travel on the Column of Trajan 106 -- JON COULSTON --7 'There and back again': getting around in Roman Egypt 138 -- COLIN ADAMS -- 8 Afterword: travel and empire 167 -- RAY LAURENCE Bibliography 177 -- Index 196

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