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Space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds

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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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
  • To 146 B.C
  • Space and time > Social aspects > Greece
  • Space and time > Social aspects > Rome
  • Cultural geography > Greece
  • Cultural geography > Rome
  • HISTORY / Ancient / General
  • Civilization
  • Cultural geography
  • Space and time > Social aspects
  • Raum
  • Gesellschaft
  • Ruimte (algemeen)
  • Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C
  • Rome > Civilization
  • Greece
  • Rome (Empire)
  • Griechenland Altertum
  • Römisches Reich
  • Romeinse rijk
  • Griekenland
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.
Contents
Inheriting and articulating a community : the agora at Cyrene -- Networks of polytheism : spaces for the gods at Delos -- Spaces of alienation : street-lining Roman cemeteries -- A spatial approach to relationships between colony and metropolis : Syracuse and Corinth -- The place of Greece in the oikoumene of Strabo's Geography -- Conclusion : space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds.
ISBN
  • 9781107009158 (hardback)
  • 1107009154 (hardback)
  • 9781107401501 (paperback)
  • 110740150X (paperback)
LCCN
2012017899
OCLC
  • ocn793973774
  • 793973774
  • SCSB-9697139
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries