Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome

by Daniela Dueck

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367439700
• ISBN13: 9780367439705
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"