Travel and geography in the Roman Empire [electronic resource] / edited by Colin Adams and Ray Laurence.
Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.Description: x, 202 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780203995594
- Travel & geography in the Roman Empire [Cover title]
- Also available in print edition.
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"Five of the chapters included in this volume were originally given as papers at the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies[,] Roman Archaeology conference at Durham in April 1999"--P. x.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.
1. Introduction / Colin Adams -- 2. The presentation of geographical knowledge for travel and transport in the Roman world : itineraria non tantum adnotata sed etiam picta / Kai Brodersen -- 3. Travel, itineraria and tabellaria / Benet Salway -- 4. The creation of geography : an interpretation of Roman Britain / Ray Laurence -- 5. Transport and communication in the Roman state : the cursus publicus / Anne Kolb -- 6. Transport and travel on the Column of Trajan / Jon Coulston -- 7. 'There and back again' : getting around in Roman Egypt / Colin Adams -- 8. Afterword : travel and empire / Ray Laurence.
Also available in print edition.
Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2012]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.