New Worlds from Old Texts
Revisiting Ancient Space and Place
Edited by Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Christopher Pelling, and Leif Isaksen
Table of Contents
Introduction, Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, and Leif Isaksen
Part 1: Texts, Maps, Ideas: Ancient Greek Representations of Space
1. Greek Hymnic Spaces, Oliver Thomas
2. The Waters at the Ends of the World: Herodotus and Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography, Donald Murray
3. Map, Catalogue, Drama, Narrative: Representations of the Aegean Space, Paola Ceccarelli
4. An Uneasy Smile: Herodotus on Saps and the Question of How to View the World, Mathieu de Bakker
5. Mapping Spatial and Temporal Distance in Herodotus and Thucydides, Tim Rood
6. From Herodotus to a 'Hellenistic' World? The Eastern Geographies of Aristotle and Theophrastus, Kathryn Stevens
Part 2: The Hestia Project: Towards a Narrative Geography of Herodotus' Histories
7. Between East and West: Movements and Transformations in Herodotean Topology, Stefan Bouzarovski and Elton Barker
8. Telling Stories with Maps: Exploring Herodotean Geography through Digital Tools, Elton Barker, Leif Isaksen, and Jessica Ogden
9. Space-travelling in Herodotus Book 5, Elton Barker and Christopher Pelling
Part 3: Technologies, Methodologies, Theories: Contemporary Approaches to Mapping Space
10. Pots in Space: An Exploratory and Geographical Network Analysis of Roman Pottery Distribution, Tom Brughmans and Jeroen Poblome
11. Tracing Networks: Technological Knowledge, Cultural Contact and Knowledge Exchange in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond, Lin Foxhall and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
12. Verbal Expressions of Geographical Information, Oyvind Eide
Epilogue: A View from the Boundary, Christopher Pelling
Bibliography
Index