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Barrington Atlas Map-by-Map Directory (Two-Volumes)
Please note that this is not the atlas, only the map by map directory vol. 1 and 2. In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas re-creates the entire world …
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
Please note that this is only the atlas. The map by map directory is sold separate with the isbn: 9780691049458. In 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas …
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How did a single village community in the Italian peninsula eventually become one of the most powerful imperial powers the world has ever known? In A Brief History of the Romans, …
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre–Modern World
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early civilizations pathways. This international collection of …
Space in the Roman World
How was space perceived and presented in the Roman world? While it is tempting to assume that any modern historical atlas, with its maps of "the world as the Romans saw it", gives …
Pliny the Elder's World
Pliny's World offers readers a translation of the Natural History's opening books unprecedented for its completeness, accuracy and accessibility. Here, in quirky, often breathless …
Roman Portable Sundials
In an unscientific era when maps were rarities, how did ancient Romans envisage their far flung empire? This was done by various means for certain, including with the aid of an …
The Senate of Imperial Rome
Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the …
Rome's World
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 …
World and Hour in Roman Minds
World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian …
Pliny the Elder's World
Pliny's World offers readers a translation of the Natural History's opening books unprecedented for its completeness, accuracy and accessibility. Here, in quirky, often breathless …
Geography and Ethnography
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. …