Mercury's Wings marks a milestone as the first-ever volume devoted to ancient communications. Its eighteen wide-ranging essays by art historians, Assyriologists, Classicists and Egyptologists explore communications as a powerful vehicle not just for the transmission of information, but also for the conduct of religion, commerce, diplomacy, culture and more.
Mercury's Wings marks a milestone as the first-ever volume devoted to ancient communications. Its eighteen wide-ranging essays by art historians, Assyriologists, Classicists and Egyptologists explore communications as a powerful vehicle not just for the transmission of information, but also for the conduct of religion, commerce, diplomacy, culture and more.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
* Contents * Figures, Maps, and Tables * Abbreviations * Contributors * Introduction, by F. S. Naiden and Richard Talbert * Part I Networks * 1 Environmental Perspectives on Ancient Communication, by Grant Parker * 2 Libraries and Communication in the Ancient World, by Matthew Nicholls * 3 Communication and Roman Long-distance Trade, by Taco Terpstra * 4 Military Communication: The Example of the Classical Battlefield, by F. S. Naiden * Part II Modes * 5 Monuments of the Hittite and Neo-Assyrian Empires during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages, by James F. Osborne * 6 Communicating with Images in the Roman Empire, by Jennifer Trimble * 7 Musical Persuasion in Early Greece, by Timothy Power * 8 Gesture in the Ancient Mediterranean World, by Gregory S. Aldrete * 9 Exercising Sympathy in Mesopotamian Letters, by Seth Richardson * Part III Divinities * 10 Messages and the Mesopotamian Gods: Signals and Systematics, by Seth Richardson * 11 Pilgrimage and Communication, by Ian Rutherford * 12 The Inspired Voice: Enigmatic Oracular Communication, by Julia Kindt * 13 Christianity, by Michael Kulikowski * Part IV Engagements * 14 Cross-cultural Communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean and Western and South Asia, by Matthew Canepa * 15 Cross-cultural Communication in Egypt, by J. G. Manning * 16 Diplomatic Communication in the Ancient Mediterranean, by Sheila L. Ager * 17 Coinage and the Roman Economy, by Kenneth W. Harl * 18 Communicating through Maps: The Roman Case, by Richard Talbert * Gazetteer * Index
* Contents * Figures, Maps, and Tables * Abbreviations * Contributors * Introduction, by F. S. Naiden and Richard Talbert * Part I Networks * 1 Environmental Perspectives on Ancient Communication, by Grant Parker * 2 Libraries and Communication in the Ancient World, by Matthew Nicholls * 3 Communication and Roman Long-distance Trade, by Taco Terpstra * 4 Military Communication: The Example of the Classical Battlefield, by F. S. Naiden * Part II Modes * 5 Monuments of the Hittite and Neo-Assyrian Empires during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages, by James F. Osborne * 6 Communicating with Images in the Roman Empire, by Jennifer Trimble * 7 Musical Persuasion in Early Greece, by Timothy Power * 8 Gesture in the Ancient Mediterranean World, by Gregory S. Aldrete * 9 Exercising Sympathy in Mesopotamian Letters, by Seth Richardson * Part III Divinities * 10 Messages and the Mesopotamian Gods: Signals and Systematics, by Seth Richardson * 11 Pilgrimage and Communication, by Ian Rutherford * 12 The Inspired Voice: Enigmatic Oracular Communication, by Julia Kindt * 13 Christianity, by Michael Kulikowski * Part IV Engagements * 14 Cross-cultural Communication in the Hellenistic Mediterranean and Western and South Asia, by Matthew Canepa * 15 Cross-cultural Communication in Egypt, by J. G. Manning * 16 Diplomatic Communication in the Ancient Mediterranean, by Sheila L. Ager * 17 Coinage and the Roman Economy, by Kenneth W. Harl * 18 Communicating through Maps: The Roman Case, by Richard Talbert * Gazetteer * Index
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