World and Hour in Roman Minds

Richard J. A. Talbert is Research Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has edited the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World and authored Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered as well as Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction Part I: World and Empire in the Mind's Eye1. Oswald Dilke's Greek and Roman Maps (1985)2. China and Rome: The Awareness of Space 3. Grasp of Geography in Caesar's War Narratives 4. Trevor Murphy's Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia (2004) 5. An English Translation of Pliny's Geographical Books for the Twenty-First Century 6. Boundaries Within the Roman Empire 7. Rome's Provinces as Framework for Worldview 8. Worldview Reflected in Roman Military Diplomas 9. Author, Audience and the Roman Empire in the Antonine Itinerary10. John Matthews' The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East (2006) Part II: Maps for Whom and Why 11. The Unfinished State of the Artemidorus Map: What is Missing, and Why?12. Claudius' Use of a Map in the Roman Senate 13. Cartography and Taste in Peutinger's Roman Map 14. Peutinger's Map: The Physical Landscape Framework15. Copyists' Engagement with the Peutinger Map Part III: From Space to Time16 Roads Not Featured: A Roman Failure to Communicate?17. Roads in the Roman World: Strategy for the Way Forward18. Communicating Through Maps: The Roman Case 19. Roman Concern to Know the Hour in Broader Historical Context BibliographyIndex

Some 35 years ago, Richard Talbert began an intellectual journey into almost uncharted scholarly territory, studying world and hour in Roman minds. He now allows us to retrace the most important steps of these explorations in detail. This most welcome collection enables all readers to understand why Talbert's research has substantially changed the way we think about space and time in the Roman world.