Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-43970-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of a very small number of learned people.

It deals with non-literary knowledge of geography, geography not derived from texts, as it was available to people, educated or not, who did not read geographic works. This main issue is composed of two central questions: how, if at all, was geographic data available outside of textual transmission and in contexts in which there was no need to write or read? And what could the public know of geography? In general, three groups of sources are relevant to this quest: oral communications preserved in writing; public non-textual performances; and visual artefacts and monuments. All of these are examined as potential sources for the aural and visual geographic knowledge of Greco-Roman publics.

This volume will be of interest to anyone working on geography in the ancient world and to those studying non-elite culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dueck, Daniela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One – Evaluating the unwritten and the unread; Chapter Two – Speeches; Chapter Three – Drama; Chapter Four – Proverbs and idioms; Chapter Five – Spectacles and public shows; Chapter Six – Visualizing geography; Chapter Seven – The scope of an illiterate geography; Appendices; Appendix A – Lists of place-names in speeches; Appendix B – Lists of place-names in dramatic plays; Appendix C – Selection of Greek geographic and ethnographic proverbs and idioms; Appendix D – Selection of Latin geographic and ethnographic proverbs and idioms; Appendix E – List of place-names in Olympic victor lists; Appendix F – List of place-names in the Fasti Triumphales 264/3-19 BCE

Über Autor(innen)

Daniela Dueck is an Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Her research interest is in ancient Greek and Roman geography. Her published books include, among other books and articles, Geography in Classical Antiquity (2012) and The Routledge Companion to Strabo (2017).