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Leicester Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society - 10: Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East

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This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient geographical knowledge, as well as ancient travel writing (an increasingly popular genre today), its popularity and purpose. All of the papers presented here show that ancient travel was considerably more widespread than is often assumed.

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Leicester Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society - 10: Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East, Colin Adams, Jim Royal, Andre G. Roy

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Titre
Leicester Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society - 10: Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East
Langue
Anglais
Publié
2007
Format
rigide
Pages
160
ISBN10
1842172492
ISBN13
9781842172490
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This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient geographical knowledge, as well as ancient travel writing (an increasingly popular genre today), its popularity and purpose. All of the papers presented here show that ancient travel was considerably more widespread than is often assumed.