Salway, RWB; (2012) Putting the world in order: mapping in Roman texts. In: Talbert, RJA, (ed.) Ancient perspectives: maps and their place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. (193 - 234). The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Illinois, US.

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Abstract

Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as critical economic, political, and personal tools, but there was little consistency in how and why they were made. Much like today, maps in antiquity meant very different things to different people.

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