Rome's World : The Peutinger Map Reconsidered
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521764807
ISBN-13
9780521764803
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 16th, 2010
Print length
376 Pages
Weight
982 grams
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26.30 x 18.70 x 3.00 cms
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The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Richard Talbert provides a long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the map as a masterpiece of both mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology enabling readers to engage with it more closely than ever before.
The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Today it is among the treasures of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Richard Talbert''s study presented in Rome''s World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered offers a long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the map as a masterpiece of both mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology. Here, the ancient world''s traditional span, from the Atlantic to India, is dramatically remolded; lands and routes take pride of place, whereas seas are compressed. Talbert posits that the map''s true purpose was not to assist travelers along Rome''s highways, but rather to celebrate the restoration of peace and order by Diocletian''s Tetrarchy. Such creative cartography, he shows, influenced the development of medieval mapmaking. With the aid of digital technology, this book enables readers to engage with the Peutinger Map in all of its fascinating immensity more closely than ever before.
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