Mercury's Wings

Richard J. A. Talbert is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Ancient History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His many books include The Senate of Imperial Rome, the collaborative Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, and Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered.Fred S. Naiden is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Trained in Classical Philology at Harvard, Prof. Naiden studies Greek law, religion, and warfare, with attention to Near Eastern comparanda, especially Israelite, Phoenician, and Mesopotamian.

• ContentsFigures, Maps, and Tables Abbreviations ContributorsIntroduction, by F. S. Naiden and Richard Talbert Part I Networks1 Environmental Perspectives on Ancient Communication, by Grant Parker2 Libraries and Communication in the Ancient World, by Matthew Nicholls3 Communication and Roman Long-distance Trade, by Taco Terpstra4 Military Communication: The Example of the Classical Battlefield, by F. S. Naiden Part II Modes5 Monuments of the Hittite and Neo-Assyrian Empires during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages, by James F. Osborne6 Communicating with Images in the Roman Empire, by Jennifer Trimble7 Musical Persuasion in Early Greece, by Timothy Power8 Gesture in the Ancient Mediterranean World, by Gregory S. Aldrete9 Exercising Sympathy in Mesopotamian Letters, by Seth Richardson Part III Divinities10 Messages and the Mesopotamian Gods: Signals and Systematics, by Seth Richardson11 Pilgrimage and Communication, by Ian Rutherford12 The Inspired Voice: Enigmatic Oracular Communication, by Julia Kindt13 Christianity, by Michael Kulikowski Part IV Engagements14 Cross-cultural Communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean and Western and South Asia, by Matthew Canepa15 Cross-cultural Communication in Egypt, by J. G. Manning16 Diplomatic Communication in the Ancient Mediterranean, by Sheila L. Ager17 Coinage and the Roman Economy, by Kenneth W. Harl18 Communicating through Maps: The Roman Case, by Richard Talbert GazetteerIndex

The editors of Mercury's Wings were intent on offering a 'broader and more rewarding canvas' than just depictions of the values of straight roads and shipping lanes. In that they have certprainly succeeded.