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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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"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Introduction: space and society -- Space: the story so far -- Space as part of the study of history -- Moving forward -- Chapter 1 Inheriting and articulating a community: the agora at Cyrene -- Introduction -- Location and initial developments (650-550 bc) -- Delineation, integration and enlargement (550-500 bc) -- The 'triumph' of democracy (500-401 bc) -- Prosperity and uncertainty (401-300 bc) -- The Ptolemaic period (301-96 bc) -- From Augustus to Hadrian (96 bc -- ad 150) |
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The end of Cyrene's agora (ad 150-400) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Networks of polytheism: spaces for the gods at Delos -- Introduction -- Developing the network: 700-500 BC -- II. Reconfiguring the network: 500-314 BC -- Making space for a wider world: 314-166 BC -- Delian predominance over the religious landscape -- Hellenistic rulers and the Apollo and Artemis sanctuary -- Spaces for foreign deities in the religious landscape -- A changing network of polytheism -- Networks of polytheism in a changing world: 166-69 BC -- Athenian efforts to change the network -- The impact of cosmopolitanism. |
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Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Spaces of alienation: street-lining Roman cemeteries -- Introduction -- Ostia -- Porta Marina -- Porta Laurentina -- Porta Romana -- Approaching Ostia through its tombs -- Pompeii -- Stabian gate -- Nolan gate -- Vesuvian gate -- Nucerian gate -- Herculaneum gate -- Approaching Pompeii through its tombs -- Rome -- Up to the first century BC -- The first century BC -- After Augustus -- The second century AD onwards -- Approaching Rome through its tombs -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 A spatial approach to relationships between colony and metropolis: Syracuse and Corinth. |
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Introduction -- Syracuse and Corinth in the Archaic Period -- Urban layout -- Architecture, art and trade -- Religious practice and burial -- The relationship of Syracuse and Corinth in context -- Syracuse and Corinth in the fifth century BC -- Syracuse and Corinth in the material and epigraphic sources -- Syracuse and Corinth in the literary sources -- Syracuse and Corinth in the fourth century BC -- Syracuse and Corinth from the third century BC onwards -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The place of Greece in the oikoumene of Strabo's Geography -- Introduction -- Approaching space and Strabo. |
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Greece and the framework of Strabo's project -- The place of Greece in other spaces of the oikoumene -- Greece as a space within the Geography -- Greece as a microcosm of the oikoumene -- Greece as a space of Homer -- Greece as a space in Strabo's present-day world -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds -- Introduction -- Classical, Hellenistic and Roman approaches to space -- Space and society, space and history -- Bibliographic essay -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: inheriting and articulating a community: the agora at cyrene. |
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Space and time -- Social aspects -- Greece.
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Space and time -- Social aspects. |
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Greece. |
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Space and time. |
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Space and time -- Social aspects -- Rome.
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Cultural geography -- Greece.
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Cultural geography. |
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Cultural geography -- Rome.
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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Civilization. |
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To 146 B.C |
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Rome -- Civilization.
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Rome (Empire) |
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To 146 B.C. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Scott, Michael, 1981- Space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107009158 (DLC) 2012017899 (OCoLC)793973774 |
| ISBN |
9781139839990 (electronic book) |
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1139839993 (electronic book) |
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9780511920653 (electronic book) |
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0511920652 (electronic book) |
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9781283741521 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283741520 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781139842372 |
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1139842374 |
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9781139844734 (e-book) |
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1139844733 (e-book) |
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9781107009158 |
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1107009154 |
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9781107401501 |
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110740150X |
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