Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome

This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission.

Autorentext

Daniela Dueck is an Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Her research interest is in ancient Greek and Roman geography. Her published books include, among other books and articles, Geography in Classical Antiquity (2012) and The Routledge Companion to Strabo (2017).

Inhalt

Chapter One Evaluating the unwritten and the unread; Chapter Two Speeches; Chapter Three Drama; Chapter Four Proverbs and idioms; Chapter Five Spectacles and public shows; Chapter Six Visualizing geography; Chapter Seven The scope of an illiterate geography; Appendices; Appendix A Lists of place-names in speeches; Appendix B Lists of place-names in dramatic plays; Appendix C Selection of Greek geographic and ethnographic proverbs and idioms; Appendix D Selection of Latin geographic and ethnographic proverbs and idioms; Appendix E List of place-names in Olympic victor lists; Appendix F List of place-names in the Fasti Triumphales 264/3-19 BCE