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Title

Space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds / Michael Scott.

Author

Scott, Michael, 1981-

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013]

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Description

xvii, 212 pages : illustrations, maps; 24cm.

Summary

"We cannot properly understand history without a full appreciation of the spaces through which its actors moved, whether in the home or in the public sphere, and the ways in which they thought about and represented the spaces of their worlds. In this book Michael Scott employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created. Through a series of innovative case studies of texts, physical spaces and cultural constructs, ranging geographically across North Africa, Greece and Roman Italy, as well as an up-to-date introduction on spatial scholarship, this book provides an ideal starting point for students and non-specialists"--

Series Statement

Key themes in ancient history

Uniform Title

Key themes in ancient history.

Subject

• Space and time > Social aspects > Greece
• Space and time > Social aspects > Rome
• Cultural geography > Greece
• Cultural geography > Rome
• Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C
• Rome > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Inheriting and articulating a community: the agora at Cyrene; 2. Networks of polytheism: spaces for the gods at Delos; 3. Spaces of alienation: street-lining Roman cemeteries; 4. A spatial approach to relationships between colony and metropolis: Syracuse and Corinth; 5. The place of Greece in the oikoumene of Strabo's Geography; Conclusion: space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds.

Call Number

JFE 13-2377

ISBN

• 9781107009158 (hardback)
• 1107009154 (hardback)
• 9781107401501 (paperback)
• 110740150X (paperback)

LCCN

2012017899

OCLC

793973774

Author

Scott, Michael, 1981-

Title

Space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds / Michael Scott.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Key themes in ancient history

Key themes in ancient history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 13-2377