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Furthering the discussion on ancient mapmaking - RICHARD J. A. TALBERT (ed.), ANCIENT PERSPECTIVES: MAPS AND THEIR PLACE IN MESOPOTAMIA, EGYPT, GREECE & ROME (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography; The University of Chicago Press 2012). Pp. ix + 264, figs., 9 colour pls. ISBN 978-0-226-78937-8. $65.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

A. H. Merrills
A. H. Merrills*
Affiliation:
School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester, ahm11@leicester.ac.uk
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 681 - 685
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Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 2014

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References

1 See the review by Kulikowski, M. at JRA 24 (2011) 831–34Google Scholar.

2 See the review by Alcock, S. E., Dey, H. W. and Parker, G. at JRA 14 (2001) 454–61Google Scholar.

3 See my review at JRA 25 (2012) 763–67Google Scholar.

4 See, for example, Whittaker, C. R., “Mental maps and frontiers: seeing like a Roman,” in his Rome and its frontiers: the dynamics of empire (London 2004) 62–87 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Salway, B., “The perception and description of space in Roman itineraries,” in Rathmann, M. (ed.), Wahrnehmung und Erfassung geographischer Räume in der Antike (Mainz 2007) 181–209 Google Scholar.

5 See Bowersock, G., “The East-West orientation of Mediterranean studies and the meaning of North and South in antiquity,” in Harris, W. V. (ed.), Rethinking the Mediterranean (Oxford 2005) 167–78Google Scholar.