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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Key themes in ancient history
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Key themes in ancient history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Cover; GEOGRAPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY; KEY THEMES IN ANCIENT HISTORY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; 1.1 OUTLINE AND GOALS; 1.2 FORMATS, CONTEXTS AND TERMINOLOGIES; 1.3 GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICS; 1.4 GREEK AND ROMAN GEOGRAPHY; CHAPTER 2 Descriptive geography; 2.1 EPIC, MYTH AND POETRY; 2.2 THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC TRADITION; 2.3 TRAVELOGUES AND CURIOSITIES; CHAPTER 3 Mathematical geography; 3.1 SHAPES AND SIZES; 3.2 THE THEORY OF CLIMATIC ZONES AND ETHNO-GEOGRAPHY; 3.3 LOCATING COORDINATES; CHAPTER 4 Cartography. |
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4.1 A PRE-MODERN WORLD4.2 DESCRIPTIVE AND SCIENTIFIC CARTOGRAPHY; 4.3 MAPS IN THE SERVICE OF THE STATE?; CHAPTER 5 Geography in practice; 5.1 THE CONNECTION BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND TEXT; 5.2 POPULAR GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; Bibliography; Index. |
Summary |
An introduction to the earliest ideas of geography in antiquity and how much knowledge there was of the physical world. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Classical geography.
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Classical geography. |
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Geography, Ancient -- History.
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Geography, Ancient. |
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History. |
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Geography -- Greece -- History.
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Geography. |
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Greece. |
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Geography -- Rome -- History.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Brodersen, Kai.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Dueck, Daniela. Geography in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521197885 |
ISBN |
9781139423380 (electronic book) |
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113942338X (electronic book) |
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9781139027014 (electronic book) |
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1139027018 (electronic book) |
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9781139419291 (electronic book) |
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1139419293 (electronic book) |
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9781139421331 |
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1139421336 |
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9780521197885 |
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0521197880 |
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9780521120258 |
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052112025X |
Standard No. |
40021149962 |
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