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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 December 2013
      16 August 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511686863
      9780521764803
      9781107685758
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511686863
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 215 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.84kg, 376 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.79kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
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    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
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    The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Today it is among the treasures of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Richard Talbert's study presented in Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered offers a long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the map as a masterpiece of both mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology. Here, the ancient world's traditional span, from the Atlantic to India, is dramatically remolded; lands and routes take pride of place, whereas seas are compressed. Talbert posits that the map's true purpose was not to assist travelers along Rome's highways, but rather to celebrate the restoration of peace and order by Diocletian's Tetrarchy. Such creative cartography, he shows, influenced the development of medieval mapmaking. With the aid of digital technology, this book enables readers to engage with the Peutinger Map in all of its fascinating immensity more closely than ever before.

    Reviews

    'The great strength of Talbert's book is that it argues - at times almost despite itself - for an imaginative non-cartographical viewing of the Peutinger Table.'

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    'This book is a very rich, detailed and inspiring study. In combination with the supporting online materials, it will undoubtedly stimulate further research on and debate about the Peutinger Map.'

    Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

    '… deserves our gratitude for having made the TP [Peutinger Map] digitally accessible to the scholarly community and for having provided a detailed commentary.'

    Source: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists

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